It’s so true, you just have to tread with care about the “learning about their lives” part. A lot of bartenders like their professional boundaries. Folks should let them initiate the more personal small-talk stuff.

In my experience, treating bartenders with respect, learning about their lives, and tipping generously will pretty much guarantee regular comps. Its nice.

You are less likely to return to a place that does freebies... because you take that information to mean that they are charging too much markup on their regularly-priced stuff?

Having spent far more than my fair share of time in bars, the best advice I can give is to stop going out on Fridays and Saturdays. Swipe the apps while munching on charcuterie and drinking wine that’s 5x nicer than what you could afford at a bar. Play cards with friends. Go watch a band that uses instruments to make…

Seconded on the hitting on bartenders bit.

Want to be certain that you will never get a free drink while also ensuring that you will be last to get noticed when it gets busy? Just say these 6 little words:

No, Wisconsin and it wasn’t the same tavern all that time, just someone in my family had a tavern open during that period in my home town. Sometimes there was some overlap. For a few years my Mom and Dad owned a place at the same time as my Aunt and Uncle.

I’m not sure if the “how about a free drink?” guys are worse than the “make it strong guys”. Order a double, Rockefeller.

So why don’t you get a case of bud light and drink it at home alone in the dark if you are so concerned about markup, which is everywhere because shockingly bars are profit seeking entities, tightwad?

As someone who has bartended off and on for many years, I can confirm that this is PARTIALLY true. It can very based on place: I worked at a shithole townie bar where buy backs were a common practice and the place was OK eating the cost of it within reason (this was not a bar big on mixed drinks, so a buy back was…

1. Be a regular

And of course nice people have just come from the salon so their hair game is. on. point!

These suckers scared the HELL out of me when I was a little kid. 

Probably nothing to worry about.

Tench’s kid’s plot is interesting to me because it’s landing solidly in the gray area Wendy discusses with Gregg when he’s first coming on board.

Right? That scene really put her in her place, and was a pretty important part to miss in the review. Now she knows what her new boss really thinks of her.

Gunn casually ‘adjusting’ Wendy’s dress before trying to pimp her out to that budget guy was majorly gross. Love how she was having none of it.

Has anyone else mentioned the face Manson made at Holden, the same face the real one made in a photograph where he was sticking his tongue out and crossing his eyes? I laughed so hard when he did that and you saw Holden go shy fan girl at it. It’s the little things in this show that crack me up.

Hilarious how salty Kemper is at Mason’s fame.

Did anyone catch the subtle eye raise Kemper did after he told Holden about onlythe serial killers that he had caught? Chilling.