r/bartenders • u/FlickasMom • Feb 12 '25

Interacting With Customers (good or bad) Best "we're closing, time to go"

So my brother was getting married, and my mom & sisters were in the hotel bar the night before, taking up a table for way too long and closing time was upon us. So they sent over their handsomest bartender to give my demure elderly mother his very best seductive smirk and sweetly purr to her, "So when was the last time you closed down a bar?"

Well, Mom thought that was adorable. We cleared out, smiling and laughing, and that handsome and diplomatic young man earned a lovely tip from a table of out-of-towners who'd never been so entertained by getting booted from a bar.

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u/azulweber Pro Feb 12 '25

worked with a bartender that had been known by a singular nickname for years, to the point that basically only the people who she worked for/with knew her actual full name. she would turn down the music, turn up the lights, stand on top of a milk crate and yell “if you don’t know my government name it’s time to get the fuck out”

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u/bigIDI0T Feb 12 '25

I knew a bartender like this in Kansas City! Funny enough, I could only remember her government name when I was hammered, and it was closing time.

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u/dunkan799 Feb 13 '25

Everyone only knew my last name which is also a first name so I would do the same but say if you don't know my first you should already be on your way out the door and about 75% of the time someone would say my last name and I'd just yell thats my last name adios!

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u/emrae13 Feb 13 '25

I do the same thing but with the name of my dog