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    I decided to take the job as a waitress and see if i warm up to the dancer "ideal" position.

    Im so nervous though. So many different drinks this place serves. ive served liquor before but i never had a "call" order
    Theres a whole system. Its so overwhelming

    And if thats not enough i do worry about the clientele. I think people are trying to freak me out but i just worry about trying to serve drinks and having guys grab my butt or try to grope me.
    Ive had it happen when i waitressed at a normal bar but the bouncer was on the guy within seconds!
    I guess what im wondering is.. A) what do most men seem to drink? Beer, wine, liquors?? B) am i really getting myself into something too deep?
    im working at a classier joint(not that that means the men will be any classier) but im hoping it at least helps

    Any advice.

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    Most men order beers or rail drinks (like Jack and Coke) or just a double shot with ice. Pretty simple things. If the club is one where they can grope the dancers in the open, then they will probably do it to the waitresses as well. At clubs where no touching is allowed, then the same rules apply to the waitresses and you can get them easily kicked out. If you want to be a dancer, I would just skip over the waitress part and just suck it up and audition to dance. Once you get past that first time on stage, it's really not bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iseestars View Post
    Most men order beers or rail drinks (like Jack and Coke) or just a double shot with ice. Pretty simple things. If the club is one where they can grope the dancers in the open, then they will probably do it to the waitresses as well. At clubs where no touching is allowed, then the same rules apply to the waitresses and you can get them easily kicked out. If you want to be a dancer, I would just skip over the waitress part and just suck it up and audition to dance. Once you get past that first time on stage, it's really not bad.
    I've never been a bar tender before, but for some reason I thought that job would be harder than being a dancer... but maybe it's just easier for me to be (or fake being) horny and less easy for me to concentrate on math, memory, and shit for serving drinks lol! That's just me tho.

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    I haven't really bartended, just had a girl take me behind her bar for like a week to show me the ropes but I have waitressed and I hated it! Where I was, it was really hard work, no breaks at all (even to use the bathroom) and not worth the money. I prefer dancing over waitressing on any day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iseestars View Post
    I haven't really bartended, just had a girl take me behind her bar for like a week to show me the ropes but I have waitressed and I hated it! Where I was, it was really hard work, no breaks at all (even to use the bathroom) and not worth the money. I prefer dancing over waitressing on any day.

    Errr wow, I'm sorry I meant to comment about waitressing not bartending. My brain isn't really functioning lately... (No sleep for the wicked type thing.)

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    lol, it's ok. But yea, in my opinion, waitressing isn't worth the stress although I know a lot of girls who love it. I like more being able to pick and chose who I am able to talk to. I've had asshole customers or cheap customers as a waitress and I had to go back and still be nice to them and as a dancer, I don't even need to deal with people like that, I am able to walk away.

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    Kelly :

    You are stressing over nothing , I promise ! The drinks really are common and simple . They are there to see pretty ladies, not try and confuse you with drinks.

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    Call order is easy. I goes according to the gun the bartender uses to make the drinks, because if you roder them in this way, he can go right down the line and make all the drinks, without having to jump around and look at the gun. that wouild slow him down.
    Call order usually is:
    Vodka
    Gin
    Rum
    Burbon
    Scotch
    Tequilla

    Depending on your place, they will have you order the sodas, beer and waters first or last.

    The easiesy way to remember the call order is to make a Sentance out of it. The stupid sentence I made was Very Good Run But She Tries. I know it doesnt make sence, but it helped me remember.

    Then the problem you run into is that the oprder you took the drinks at the table isn't the smae order you will call them in, so when the bartender makes the dirnks, you might get confused on what is what. Diet drinks are darker in color than regular drinks. (a rum diet would look darker than rum coke) As the bartender makes the drinks, remember your call order, so you know that the vodka's are commign out first, so you will know what is what. Customrs get very pissy if you give them the wrong drinks, but it happens.

    Here's a few other secrets I learned:

    Put your beers on the back of your tray. Beer is heavy and if you put it in the back, your arm is stronger and can support the weight better, so yoru wrist won't hurt as much.

    If you have a whole table of guiys all ordering the same liquor ( like they order vodka tonic, vodka cran vodka sprite) Then try to sell them a bottle of vodka. Let them know that splitting the price of a bottle is cheaper than buying individual drinks all night.

    If there's a big group of guys all ordering beer, say Hey! you guys really should celebrate the occasion! A round of shots?

    Make sure iof they order shots you ask how they want them. Chilled? Lime? Salt?

    Know what garnishes go in what drinks. Basicially clear drinks always get a lime.

    ALWAYS order your drinks with the liquor first, mixer second. Never say redbull vodka.


    Hmm..Thats abotu all the tips I can think of right now. Dont let yrou nerves get to you. You'll get the hang of it. My very first waitressing job ever was at one of the busiest casinos in Las Vegas. I was carryign out 40-60 drinks at a time. Double and triple stacked on my tray. So I learned a few thigns....before they fired me cause I couldnt keep up, lol. Strip club waistressing was a cake walk and much much more fun to me.

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    wow Peanut_Butter .... what do you mean? call order? i've been waitressing for years (and now i bartend) and i've never heard of a call order. will you explain for me? and where do they do this?

    see, for me, as a waitress, sometimes i was encouraged to group my tickets by alcohol (the two Grey Goose drinks together, the three Ketel One drinks together, etc) but usually they were random enough it didn't matter - a ticket might have one tequila, two martinis, four wines, and a soda. more important was, say, grouping the beers and sodas and writing it as "4 Bud Light" not "Bud Light, Bud light... etc".

    but as a bartender (and the bartenders i worked with always did this ...) i would take your ticket, put it on the service bar facing you, and line up your drinks in the order of the ticket so there was absolutely no confusion.

    in my experience, a "call" order is when someone "calls" for a certain alcohol in their drink: for example, we say that people almost always call their manhattans [like they order them with Maker's Mark or Jack Daniels] but don't always call their martinis [some people just order a vodka martini].

    so let's hear! what does it mean? i have to know!

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    The call order is the order in which a waitress "calls" her drinks to the bartender. As I said, it goes in the order that the liquor gun is in, whioch is generally vodka, gin, rum, blah, blah, blah.


    So on this gun, The vodka button would be the first button, the gin button is second...and so on down the line.

    So when I call my drinsk to the bartender in that order, he can just go according to the gun, instead of needing to make his fingers jump around and search for the proper liquor. It makes the ordering process faster.

    See, I waitressed at casinos, and we have a well, with maybe 5-10 waitresses waiting in line at one time to order their drinks. And each waitress can have anywhere from 10-30 drinks to order. They need to make the process as quick and efficient as possible so we arent waiting in the well for a half hour...while thirsty guests get angry waiting on their drinks.


    This is the same reason you group your tickets by alcohol, to make it faster on the bartender. Because if you say 4 kettles, he can popur 4 shots of kettle in 4 glasses right quick and then add the mixers in. But if you say kettle, tanguray, tequilla, kettle again..then he is jumping around and it slows things down.
    The call order I have learned out here is just an extra step to further make thigns more efficient in the ordering process.




    I have also worked at casinos that we ordered the drinks froma computer and it printed out a ticket for the bartender, but still, the call order aplies to make thigns go faster. He wwill line up the drinks in order of the ticket...and I know that he has made all my vodka drinsk first, gin drinsk second and so on. I have to know what order I made them in so I knwo what is vodka tonic and what is vodka soda so I dont mix them up. As soon as he makes the vodka tonic, I put a lime in it so I know thats the tonic. I leave the soda without a garnish and know its the soda. So I keep thigns straight.


    I waitressed in one strip club, and thigns were much mroe laid back, they didnt require any of that stuff, but they greatly appriciated my efficiency. I could get in and out of the well in just a few minutes. Which means i served more drinks and made more tips.


    Whew! That was a lot of typing, lol. Anyway...that is how I've been taught how to waitress.

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    I get it now!

    I've never seen one of those liquor guns before. Even in high volume nightclubs around here, we just use speed racks for actual liquor bottles. It all makes a lot more sense to me now

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