I’m not eating at a restaurant where anybody needs a notice for this.
garaks_tailor
Worked at one place where that was a fireable offense. Immediately leave. Go. Zero tolerance. Like 9 scoops and deli containers right around and next to with Ice only written on to them.
FramingHips
We love the incompetent bartender passive-aggressive follow-up note. “Guys you should just always expect there to be glass in the ice well all the time. When you’re weeded, just take your time to look, it’s not that hard. There’s always gonna be glass in the ice well.”
Edit: apparently this could read that people are using pint glasses to scoop ice. Which is unhygienic and should never happen in the first place. I’ve known bartenders to be polishing and break a glass, or a customer to spill/break a glass that gets into the ice well, so I read it that way.
secksy-lemonade
Wack that that needs to be said. Would never eat at a restaurant with that notice. I don’t want internal bleeding as a side effect of drinking my beverages
VanDammeJamBand
Used to work with a bartender who insisted on scooping with a pint instead of the million metal instruments around him he could have used. Always drove me fucking crazy.
Probably where my recurring nightmares of taking a drink with crushed ice and finding out it’s full of glass shards comes from
wildjabali
I’ve seen a bartender in the weeds scream at the top of their lungs, in front of customers, at a busboy scooping ice with a pint glass.
titaniumlid
Well I’m never letting restaurants put ice in my drinks now.
PhilosophOrk
The amount of servers, cooks and other bartenders even that I have to tell not to scoop ice with anything other than the designated ice scoop (in which there is 1-2 at every ice well) is fuckin absurd.
You get one calm warning from me, with an explanation of why. (Don’t attribute malice for what could be incompetence and all that) After the one warning though, I’ll get shitty about it.
Disastrous_Kick9189
I worked at a bar with ice bins between the wells and the bartop, sometimes a flute or coupe would get knocked off and break in the ice bins. It happens even if you are making sure to only use metal / plastic for scooping. Draining completely is the only way to be sure, but I have never worked with anybody who needed to be told that lol
mustardtruck
Oh wow. I thought the green text was saying like ” or, don’t scoop ice that has broken glass in it?”
As in like, “cleaning it up is not that big of an emergency as long as nobody scoops broken glass into a cup.”
I was like, what are you fucking stupid?
SuperDoubleDecker
This is just another reason why I don’t trust ice at places. I also know how disgusting bartenders are. Like all of them. Even the good ones.
d1j1tal
Anyone scooping ice with a glass should be immediately terminated
Bogotol2003
Glass should NEVER be put in an ice well
PetersonOpiumPipe
Icewell gets dumped if a customers glass shatters on the same side of the bar as the icewell.
tauntdevil
I think the new final destination movie should help some people focus on not scooping with glass.
Potential_Appeal_649
My mother did this. Many years ago when I was younger I went to get ice and luckily when reaching didn’t hurt myself, but realized by the grace of God that there was a broken up wine glass in there. I’d like to say that was the single most irresponsible thing she did. It was shocking to me even then, even more so now. Just nuts
SAHDB0d
What’s the SOP when I clear off a table and break the glass with silverware?
Olderbutnotdead619
That’s what scoops are for!!
qtprince
We had a wash sink and one working Hobart at a venue I worked at. The barbacks would bring racks upon racks of wine glasses, mugs, etc.
Because we hired temporaries for awhile, I had to train them (even though I was the lead barista… whole can of worms, who gives af), and this one chick…
She was good, but at some point one of the bartenders busted a glass in the wash sink and didn’t rinse it out properly, so a giant piece of glass was sitting in the drain, pointed straight up.
Poor girl was rinsing glasses and absolutely mauled her finger. Screamed and everything during an intermission.
She literally didn’t come back for the next shift, and that was the night I spent from 5PM until 11:30PM helping our main barbacks rinse and wash every glass.
makingkevinbacon
who the hell uses glass to scoop anyway? Buy a metal scoop on Amazon for like five bucks then you can rest assured you won’t internally jack the ripper someone
Zestyclose_Prize_165
Sometimes it amazing me the things that have to be said
Golden_locks_1
That’s some Final Destination: Bloodlines shit
Disastrous-Menu4130
Don’t ever scoop ice with glasses. There fixed it. That’s a policy!
LuckyCod2887
can’t believe this has to be said.
i see broken glass as an emergency situation.
McBoobenstein
Use the damned scoop!
tragedy_strikes_
Confucius say:
Chummers5
“Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?”
guiltycitizen
It shouldn’t have to happen enough times to warrant a note
CongregationOfFoxes
lol not scooping with glass was like the first thing drilled into me as a barista and servsafe, though I will say if you work with waist level ice bins there can be some crazy accidents that cause spills/glass shards to get in or around it which sucks
Kennedy_KD
it’s so annoying how many times i have had to tell wait staff to use the provided metal scoops for ice just in case only for them to just tell me it’s “fine” and “just how they do” still better then time I had to yell at a cook to wash his fucking hands between barehanded handling of chicken breast and salad
ulykke
I cant believe I took it to mean that the second person is being mouthy and sarcastically telling the first person to just scoop the ice around the broken glass
LTinS
I had a bartender who I saw break a glass by scooping. I straight up told him he had to drain the entire well and start it over again. His solution? Add more ice to it, so he’d be scooping ice above the broken glass…
xmosinitisx
This is working in hospitality 101, don’t ever scoop ice with glass. Doesn’t everyone learn that the first week?!
-FalseProfessor-
We solve this problem at my place by simply not having ice.
I’ve cut myself on shards that got left in our dish sink a few times, though. That is not fun. I always drain and wipe the whole thing down if I break a glass.
ntlsp
Our glasses would break when servers took hot glasses straight from the dishwasher and scooped (with the proper ice scoop) ice into them
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My note underneath: I’m very disturbed.
I’m not eating at a restaurant where anybody needs a notice for this.
Worked at one place where that was a fireable offense. Immediately leave. Go. Zero tolerance. Like 9 scoops and deli containers right around and next to with Ice only written on to them.
We love the incompetent bartender passive-aggressive follow-up note. “Guys you should just always expect there to be glass in the ice well all the time. When you’re weeded, just take your time to look, it’s not that hard. There’s always gonna be glass in the ice well.”
Edit: apparently this could read that people are using pint glasses to scoop ice. Which is unhygienic and should never happen in the first place. I’ve known bartenders to be polishing and break a glass, or a customer to spill/break a glass that gets into the ice well, so I read it that way.
Wack that that needs to be said. Would never eat at a restaurant with that notice. I don’t want internal bleeding as a side effect of drinking my beverages
Used to work with a bartender who insisted on scooping with a pint instead of the million metal instruments around him he could have used. Always drove me fucking crazy.
Probably where my recurring nightmares of taking a drink with crushed ice and finding out it’s full of glass shards comes from
I’ve seen a bartender in the weeds scream at the top of their lungs, in front of customers, at a busboy scooping ice with a pint glass.
Well I’m never letting restaurants put ice in my drinks now.
The amount of servers, cooks and other bartenders even that I have to tell not to scoop ice with anything other than the designated ice scoop (in which there is 1-2 at every ice well) is fuckin absurd.
You get one calm warning from me, with an explanation of why. (Don’t attribute malice for what could be incompetence and all that) After the one warning though, I’ll get shitty about it.
I worked at a bar with ice bins between the wells and the bartop, sometimes a flute or coupe would get knocked off and break in the ice bins. It happens even if you are making sure to only use metal / plastic for scooping. Draining completely is the only way to be sure, but I have never worked with anybody who needed to be told that lol
Oh wow. I thought the green text was saying like ” or, don’t scoop ice that has broken glass in it?”
As in like, “cleaning it up is not that big of an emergency as long as nobody scoops broken glass into a cup.”
I was like, what are you fucking stupid?
This is just another reason why I don’t trust ice at places. I also know how disgusting bartenders are. Like all of them. Even the good ones.
Anyone scooping ice with a glass should be immediately terminated
Glass should NEVER be put in an ice well
Icewell gets dumped if a customers glass shatters on the same side of the bar as the icewell.
I think the new final destination movie should help some people focus on not scooping with glass.
My mother did this. Many years ago when I was younger I went to get ice and luckily when reaching didn’t hurt myself, but realized by the grace of God that there was a broken up wine glass in there. I’d like to say that was the single most irresponsible thing she did. It was shocking to me even then, even more so now. Just nuts
What’s the SOP when I clear off a table and break the glass with silverware?
That’s what scoops are for!!
We had a wash sink and one working Hobart at a venue I worked at. The barbacks would bring racks upon racks of wine glasses, mugs, etc.
Because we hired temporaries for awhile, I had to train them (even though I was the lead barista… whole can of worms, who gives af), and this one chick…
She was good, but at some point one of the bartenders busted a glass in the wash sink and didn’t rinse it out properly, so a giant piece of glass was sitting in the drain, pointed straight up.
Poor girl was rinsing glasses and absolutely mauled her finger. Screamed and everything during an intermission.
She literally didn’t come back for the next shift, and that was the night I spent from 5PM until 11:30PM helping our main barbacks rinse and wash every glass.
who the hell uses glass to scoop anyway? Buy a metal scoop on Amazon for like five bucks then you can rest assured you won’t internally jack the ripper someone
Sometimes it amazing me the things that have to be said
That’s some Final Destination: Bloodlines shit
Don’t ever scoop ice with glasses. There fixed it. That’s a policy!
can’t believe this has to be said.
i see broken glass as an emergency situation.
Use the damned scoop!
Confucius say:
“Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?”
It shouldn’t have to happen enough times to warrant a note
lol not scooping with glass was like the first thing drilled into me as a barista and servsafe, though I will say if you work with waist level ice bins there can be some crazy accidents that cause spills/glass shards to get in or around it which sucks
it’s so annoying how many times i have had to tell wait staff to use the provided metal scoops for ice just in case only for them to just tell me it’s “fine” and “just how they do”
still better then time I had to yell at a cook to wash his fucking hands between barehanded handling of chicken breast and salad
I cant believe I took it to mean that the second person is being mouthy and sarcastically telling the first person to just scoop the ice around the broken glass
I had a bartender who I saw break a glass by scooping. I straight up told him he had to drain the entire well and start it over again. His solution? Add more ice to it, so he’d be scooping ice above the broken glass…
This is working in hospitality 101, don’t ever scoop ice with glass. Doesn’t everyone learn that the first week?!
We solve this problem at my place by simply not having ice.
I’ve cut myself on shards that got left in our dish sink a few times, though. That is not fun. I always drain and wipe the whole thing down if I break a glass.
Our glasses would break when servers took hot glasses straight from the dishwasher and scooped (with the proper ice scoop) ice into them