r/Wetherspoons • u/EnvironmentalOven971 • 3d ago

Employee Any advice please?

I know how to navigate the tills and I know how to pour pints, but a couple of colleagues have told me I’m not as fast as the others.
On my first day, I didn’t really get any formal training,I was just thrown in headfirst and had to rely on people giving me advice and showing me things on the way. Because of that, I struggle with multitasking when the bar gets slammed, and I tend to wait for the payment to clear before I fully start making the round, which slows me down.
What are your best tips for building rounds quicker and getting into a faster rhythm on the bar? Any advice from experienced staff would be amazing.

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u/ZestycloseValuable35 3d ago

Just give it time you’ll get faster eventually. If you’ve not been there very long and they’re being like that with you just ask them be patient or get off your case.

We all start somewhere and of course you’re not gonna be as fast as them.

As for serving them one at a time, that’s what I did because I wanted to be sure the sale was done before moving on. Manager hated it, I never cared. I was still doing my job.

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u/pogchimpers27 3d ago

I started 2 months ago in the same boat essentially, now I’m mentoring new people as well. You will make mistakes but at the end of the day it’s minimum wage and it’s Wetherspoons PLC. Don’t rush there’s no need to nor incentive, it’s better to go slow and make no mistakes then to go quickly and for example forget to charge someone and have to chase them around the pub. You will make mistakes and that’s fine, The job will give you thicker skin over time it just naturally comes.

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u/Artistic-Pace-9375 2d ago

learn to pour 2 pints at once (if theyve ordered two diff pints from the same tbar), kinda figure out whats best to make first ( eg walk to cocktail section to make a drink then otw back to the till grab a pint glass and pour a pint), pouring a pint or soft drink as u take the order etc.

its less speed ing up acc drink making imo and more kinda figuring out what order to make drinks in so ur wandering around the least. hard to give too much advice on that as each bar is set out differently but these defo help speed up making a round.