Nine Tricks Bartenders Use to Get More Money
From pouring top-shelf booze when you didn't ask for it to using a ton of ice and skimping on the mixer so it still tastes stronger. Here are some ways bartenders will try and get more money out of you.
- Pouring top shelf, unrequested
- Not mentioning the automatic gratuity
- Icing your drink down
- Using fewer liquors than the drink calls for
- Skimping on the mixers
- Closing you out without an itemized bill
- Mysteriously raising the price when people don’t tip
- Adding water to your rocks drink
- Pouring Smirnoff into the Belvedere bottle