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Originally Posted by Reaper
Short pouring is how self entitled bartenders make extra money.
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There are some really interesting things happening with liquor control these days.
Weigh-in-weigh-out has been around forever, and many bars use paybacks at the end of the night for the bartenders for missing booze. Many also even do blind cashouts every night now, so basically the bartenders just hand over their money to a manager, and the manager will tell them how much money they owe for the booze they poured. Sometimes leads to bartenders making little to no money.
Unfortunate side effect of this system is that while bars are minimizing their losses, they are also making it very much in bartenders' self-interest to short-pour customers.
I have heard of numerous bars who also have a "plus" system now built into inventory - so when calculating how much money the bartenders owe at the end of the night, they add 10% or more everytime, in effect
making the bartenders short-pour patrons.