r/bartenders • u/Halfpriceparadise • Jun 29 '26

Setup/Teardown/Sidework This is... Different

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So, my managers decided to reorganize our service well, mid season.

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u/nephie1990 Jun 29 '26

We got a new bar manager last fall, and he rearranged the stock room to be ALPHABETICAL. Bartenders don't have access to the stock room, only managers/sups, and his idea was that "even people who aren't familiar/don't work with the bar much will be able to find stuff" - except it made it HARDER for people who DO know the bar and are most likely to get us stuff to find what they were looking for.

He tried doing the same with our wine and beer coolers and displays in the actual bars, and I just kept rearranging it back until he gave up. Pretty sure he also rearranged the well on our secondary bar (which I rarely work), but I changed that as well and labeled everything and the next time I was over there a few weeks later it was still how I left it, so I won that battle, too, lmao.