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- HA5TY, on 12/15/2007, -20/+110This was on digg less than a month ago.
- jdmulloy, on 12/15/2007, -2/+84I love the fact that they show you how you can get screwed but don't actually tell you how to prevent it.
- themoose, on 12/15/2007, -6/+74If anyone in America is wondering what program this is from, it's the Real Hustle - a great little BBC production. Download some episodes if you can.
- dpfinearts, on 12/15/2007, -0/+66I've been a bartender and bar manager for years, and if I ever caught one of my bar tenders doing any of this, they'd be fired on the spot. Of course, I don't live in a tourist trap, and maintaining clientele is very important. No one comes back to a bar or restaurant because you pour a weak drink. The profit margin on liquor is so high, any bar can make a good profit pouring a stiff drink. There's really no excuse for that crap.
- tehrob, on 12/15/2007, -9/+58Oh, it's not a swindle. What you do is, see, you give 'em all your credit card numbers, and if one of them is lucky, they'll send you a prize.
- justananomaly, on 12/15/2007, -2/+50Buried for being a 5:46 long video on 5min.com. False advertisement.
- capiCrimm, on 12/15/2007, -1/+41you didn't watch the video, huh?
- chkdg8, on 12/15/2007, -0/+38These are Mickey Mouse scams compared to what goes on in South Beach. Down here, it's straight up front robbery. There are clubs where all of the spirits are not what they are. Almost all of the vodkas are filled up with house vodka and the same goes for the gins and rums. Bottle service is a huge scam too. Many times do the cocktail servers come to your table with the "filled" bottles already opened and replaced with a pour spout for your own convenience or another slight of hand trick is where the server will open the bottle on front of you but there won't be a plastic seal around the neck. They just save the bottle and caps and fill them up at night or before the shift starts. The same goes for champagne as well. Believe it or not, there's this one club on the beach where they went through high hell just to find the perfect apparatus from Hong Kong that reseals bottles of bubbly. Think that's really Crystal or Dom Perignon? In a restaurant yes of course but at a busy ass club where they prey on tourists? I don't think so. They save thousands a week on inventory. This is why I got out of the club business. It's really dirty.
- numb, on 12/15/2007, -2/+37I worked at a bar where the GM was ripping off the bar for tons of money. He hired one of his friends so there were actually two of them pulling off the scam. One would go to the liquor store and buy bottles of the drinks that would run out in a single evening. Then they'd serve from those bottles without actually ringing anything up, pocketing the profit. When you're selling $4 shots of Jaeger the profits add up quickly.
- shmatt, on 12/15/2007, -1/+36"Americans aren't retarded you dumb Britt."
not ALL Americans, anyway. Sorry about these morons. ^ - Madpony, on 12/15/2007, -0/+34Remember kids, it's always cheaper to drink at home.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -4/+37I concur. At that price (which I think is roughly $1500 USD) the drink better give me several long-lasting orgasms.
- a1cd, on 12/15/2007, -2/+3425 Euro for ONE Drink? WTF.
- KniteWulf, on 12/15/2007, -7/+39Jaeger bombs? I ***** shower in that *****.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -1/+30Hi, let me be the first to welcome you to Earth.
- jazzboyrules, on 12/15/2007, -3/+30Intelligent thumbnail.
- Ignotus, on 12/15/2007, -1/+26If you ring it up, you have to put the money in the till or it will be short. If you don't ring it up, you can put all of it in your pocket, not just the tax. It sounds like they were basically running their own business within another business. Buying and selling their own liquor. The owner might notice that business was low, but the tills won't be short and none of the owner's liquor will be unaccounted for. You're not ripping off the customer, you're ripping off the owner of the bar by stealing his business.
- topiKal, on 12/15/2007, -2/+27Of course bars are expensive; people go for the atmosphere, not the prices.
Bartenders who cheat customers are (unfortunately) the ones who end up staying employed a very long time. Bar managers love you if you can under-pour almost all your customers and not receive any complaints. Of course, it gives all the other bartenders out there a bad name. There are a lot of very good bartenders who don't try to pull that crap.
The real trick is to pour the drink yourself at home and get a taste for it. If it feels too weak, tell them to repour it. Believe me, they won't under-pour you again; they'll be afraid of getting complaints. - yuannerz, on 12/15/2007, -1/+25*whoosh*
- darny, on 12/15/2007, -0/+24there's this bar near my house that has this really hot bartender with an equally hot accent.
that's pretty much all i got. - SSUK, on 12/15/2007, -0/+23I'm pretty sure everything's been on Digg before.
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -5/+28a ***** joint.
- dirigibleduck, on 12/15/2007, -0/+21This is why I stick to taverns and pubs. You can't really rip me off on a good pint of ale. Not as easily, anyway.
I only order mixed drinks if there's no good beer on tap. - Ignotus, on 12/15/2007, -1/+20LOL, call us idiots and then ask us to do you a favor because you are lazy.
- themoose, on 12/15/2007, -2/+19I didn't say you were retarded. Retard.
- mrbradg, on 12/15/2007, -6/+22Digg is becoming a place where your grandmother sends forwards over and over and the same ones every month.
- xJudahx, on 12/15/2007, -7/+23Some people like to go out and meet people to have sex with. You should try it.
- ShyGuy91284, on 12/15/2007, -3/+16Because the Wii is using an older/non-standard-compliant version of Flash?
- iStunT, on 12/15/2007, -5/+18This is really sad how people try to take advantage anyway they can.
- ladyarcher85, on 12/15/2007, -7/+19Don't drink in bars and don't get drunk. That's the best way of preventing it.
- mwhatley, on 12/15/2007, -0/+12this is simple. order beer. from a bottle.
- unclemeat, on 12/15/2007, -0/+12The best way to not get scammed would be to cut all ties to the outside world and live on subsistence farming, but that wouldn't be much fun.
- glinsvad, on 12/15/2007, -0/+11I'll just have a beer then
- vertinox, on 12/15/2007, -1/+11Personally, I like to get drunk before going to the bar.
- pditty112, on 12/15/2007, -1/+11This is ridiculous. As a bartender what would I possibly have to gain by short pouring someone. Short pouring someone is not going get you to come back. Unless I actually owned the bar I could care less how much money is going in the till as long as I'm getting tipped. If I really wanted to scam you I would make you a drink and tell you the price is $4 rather than $3 or just put your money right in my tip jar.
The bartender really has nothing to gain from this.
And in the last segment where the guy counts out the amount of alcohol. Hes right about using a three count except hes using the wrong pour spout. The first one that pours more liquor is actually a speed pourer. Its designed for clubs with high volume where speed is everything. The second one is the correct spout which is designed to be used with a three count pour.
Heres a normal spout.
http://shop.newyorkbarstore.com/Items/POUR-01?
Heres a speed pourer.
http://www.barwarehouse.com/index.cfm?action=ViewD ...
Look at how wide the top is on the speed pour. - trer, on 12/15/2007, -2/+12Chick in orange can scam me anytime. HAWT
- d03boy, on 12/15/2007, -8/+18I didn't see it and I check digg every 3 minutes practically
- djbon2112, on 12/15/2007, -0/+9As the video says, these swindles are more common in tourist areas. If your local bar pulled something like this and it got found out, it would loose all its customers and probably go out of business. But if you do it in a tourist area, even if you get caught, there's always thousands of new people coming in every day, who DON'T know what goes on.
- Catachresis, on 12/15/2007, -0/+9I actually know her from secondary school. She's a bit scary, truth be told.
- q1006662, on 12/15/2007, -1/+10I hear computers work well for that sort of thing
- Nerfdude, on 12/15/2007, -2/+10you sound like a bro. want to listen to some john mayer, play a little xbox? don't mind my black dildo collection.
- xJudahx, on 12/15/2007, -1/+9If people can't tell by drinking it, you need to get some real drunks in there!
- numb, on 12/15/2007, -0/+8Yes, that was exactly the situation. And it was six or seven years ago this was happening, so the price of Jaeger shots may have gone up since then. Also, it wasn't just one bottle per night either. Many of the bands that played there were getting paid a percentage of what the bar brought in. One of them noticed that despite the place being packed they were making much less when the GM was working and let the owner know that something wasn't right.
- knobtwiddler, on 12/15/2007, -1/+9they forgot my personal favorite- re-filling old bottles of quality liquor with cheap *****.
i can always tell especially when i order meyers rum if they do that. it has a very distinctive flavor. and man... some cheap vodka will give you a killer hangover compared to the good stuff - xJudahx, on 12/15/2007, -0/+8People that make hundreds of transaction a night are statistically bound to make mistakes. I tended bar for 10 years and never did that on purpose.
Now, the fact that 70% of bartenders steal is another thing. - HA5TY, on 12/15/2007, -2/+10I don't believe you
- inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+8Where I used to bartend we were encouraged to do such things. I remember standing in the back coolers dumping bottles of no name vodkas into top shelf bottles...and doing so just about every night. It was a night club though, not a bar, which means, serve as many people as you can, as fast as you can, if they complain, then just kick them out. Since there were 800 people waiting outside that would love to take their place, we really didn't care if a few people swore they would never come back.
I have since left, but I heard they recently went out of business... - centran, on 12/15/2007, -0/+8asking for a repour is a good way not to ever be served again in a crowed bar. They will just pass you up.
The "polite" way is to re-order your drink but ask for a double. However, if you think they are scamming you then go somewhere else. - topiKal, on 12/15/2007, -3/+10Uh... not if they build the drink in front of you. Which all bartenders are supposed to do.
- Synthesize, on 12/15/2007, -7/+14Hasn't this been on Digg before?
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