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@RegularJohn So at any "good" bar you ignore people in line if they don't know your rules? So if a newcomer screws up once you skip them and then get back to them eventually? How is this good service? Listen as long as someone is not berating you or yelling at you then you follow the ...

@RegularJohn So at any "good" bar you ignore people in line if they don't know your rules? So if a newcomer screws up once you skip them and then get back to them eventually? How is this good service? Listen as long as someone is not berating you or yelling at you then you follow the line of service. All I have to take is your word that you work at good English Bars, where I am just speaking to human decency.

I would never skip over someone I could tell was new to the bar. I would serve them in line and explain to them that they should be more polite next time or I may skip over them. You never want your customers to feel they are being treated unfairly. If you don't explain it to them and just skip over people then people leave and don't want to come back. It's an absurd standard to have. Sure as the server you may have the power to decide who gets what when, but that does not mean you should use it so liberally. The service industry is about service, and skipping over people who make a blunder is not service. Especially since your business is in liquor, I would imagine some of those people would be drunk and tend to be a bit brusque because of what you served them. Not everyone is going to be polite when they are drunk.

But anyway it's the internet, all arguments are pointless including yours.

You know you could have shorted your response to one sentence. I was told that customers are always right, so that is what I believe.

If that's how you feel fair enough, but as I said before you don't know what the standards are over here so you can't comment on what's right and ...

You know you could have shorted your response to one sentence. I was told that customers are always right, so that is what I believe.

If that's how you feel fair enough, but as I said before you don't know what the standards are over here so you can't comment on what's right and wrong here. I never said you're way was wrong just said it wouldn't go down well here. As for your little human decency line, we are talking about serving someone a drink, this is not a basic human right. Decency doesn't even come into it. If you want to try argue that it does then they are infringing on my rights as a human, waving money at my makes me feel degraded like some kind of drink monkey just there for their pleasure. I find waving money just as annoying as aggression or any other kind of rude behaviour. That's the thing your not getting. If I find it annoying and I explain that the them they should learn and skipping over them is a way to get my point across if you think it's too harsh then that's fine but you can't tell me I'm wrong. It's opinion not fact.

And finally no sensible debate is pointless, its one of the best parts of the internet. Discussing subjects you are passionate about and arguing your side even if you know you wont change the other guys mind, that's fun.