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Summary: To make friends with a bartender, always be friendly, keep ordering drinks and tip very well. Make friends with your bartender by becoming a regular with tips from an experienced bartender in this free video on bartending.
Micah Bartelme is a professional bartender. Bartelme has tended bar around the world as an international bartender, and he is knowledgeable about thousands of drink recipes.read more
"If you spend a lot of time out in the bars hopping around drinking one of the first things you're going to want to do is be friends with your bartender. My name's Micah and I'm going to show you how to become friends with your bartender. Now firstly and most importantly is to always be kind, from the time you meet them until you leave to go home always be nice. Be polite, be courteous, say please, say thank you. Nobody likes a rude customer. Secondly, actually drink something. If you come into a bar, order. Keep drinking, keep the bartender knowing that you're there, that you're somebody, that you're ordering. Thirdly, tip well. Bartenders loves patrons that tip well, keep conversation casual, chat them up. However, don't maximize their time. Bartenders are often busy people, and can't stand around for ten minutes having conversations. Know that your conversation is going to get split up, and that they are going to have to come back to you, and you might have to pick up if they have to go serve a drink. Come in often, it's nothing like making a bartender think that you're always there, that you're coming, that you're a regular. Become a regular. Go to your bar all the time, go to the same bar, go on the days that they work, become friends with them. Offer perhaps tickets to a game, perhaps you go to the baseball together, something like that. After a certain amount of time. Activities away from the bar together can only cement your friendship. My name's Micah, and this has been how to become friends with your bartender."
eHow Article: How to Make Friends With a Bartender