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RULES FOR BARTENDERS
The bartenders employed in a saloon should have
regular hours of duty and a certain amount of work
to perform outside of the usual business of waiting
on customers. They must be polite, considerate and
courteous, and attentive; never aggressive nor in
solent, no matter what the provocation may be.
In cases of emergency, however, they should act at
once. But when the proprietor is present points of
difference between themselves and customers must
be referred to and settled by him.
When the time arrives for a bartender to go off
duty he should be given to understand that the bar
bench must be left in perfect order, the bottles filled,
ice in the ice-box—unless his tour of duty is the
last of the day—glassware cleaned and polished
and everything ready for the man who relieves him
to attend to customers as soon as he comes on
The relief man should go over the stock at his
first leisure moment and make sure that everything
is in good working order; that there is sufficient
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