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SOME HINTS FOR THE YOUNG BARTENDER

1. Always be clean, tidy, cheerful and diplomatic.

2. Remernber your hands are in constant view so pay

special attention to finger nails.

3. Do not smoke behind the bar.

4. Ice is essential for all Cocktail Bars. See that it is

always clean and clear. Snowy ice deteriorates

quickly.

5. Always keep your glasses clean and polished. Where

necessary ice before serving.

6. Always handle glasses by the stem, or base.

7. A broken glass kills the profit on two drinks.

8. It is both bad taste and dangerous to allow a

Champagne cork to go"POP".

9. Excessive sparkle in Champagne does not guarantee its

quality.

10. When serving Wine at a table always serve on the

right of each person.

11. Grasp a cold Syphon by the metal part only, otherwise

the heat of the hand might burst the glass container.

Glass is a poor conductor of heat and will not stand

up to sudden changes of temperature.

12. You will extract considerably more juice from oranges

and lemons if you warm them.

13. A small bag of rice kept in your bar sugar will prevent

it caking in damp weather.

14. Always beat an egg in a separate glass"just in case ".

15. Never favoiu: one particular customer as this is bound

to offend others.

16. A good cigarette lighter,or matches,readyin aninstant,

is part of a Bartender's stock-in-trade,

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