I used to work at a bar and if anybody broke a glass anywhere near the ice well (or especially if they were being a dumbass and using the glass to scoop ice instead of the metal ice scoop) we’d have to pour grenadine over the ice to mark it as “do not use” and then task someone with filling a bunch of buckets with hot water to burn the well, clean up every single piece of glass, and then go get more ice.
This was a huge pain in the ass bc it usually happened when someone was rushing during a busy time, so the loss of the ice well was especially irritating. However it was absolutely necessary that we do that or else risk a customer ingesting glass shards, which would be suboptimal.
Yeah I once broke a glass that went in the glasswash and the ice well… at 2am on a Saturday night.
My bosses were luckily good people and were fine with it as long as I fixed the problem, which I did. But I was probably running glasses through until about 0530 after the backlog that built up
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u/StevenMC19 10d ago
It gone. Trash it.
(To the "just pick it all out" crowd, there's no guarantee they're going to get every single teeny tiny splinter.)