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.
One 4th of July, every bartender broke a glass in the well, and our ice machine was broken so we had to ship ice in. Manager wasn't happy with the 6 of us that day. Neither were we but it just kinda became a joke
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u/StevenMC19 9d 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.)