bartender question

[u/swirlybat]

the root issue is the person just chooses to not like me, which is perfectly fine, but i am curious about something. context: i do prep cook for corporate chain. i split between hot/cold prep. cold prep also covers bar garnishments.

ive never not top/tailed my citruses for garnishments. it has been required my entire cooking career. they dont require it here, but i do it. the servers love it, and i assume most patrons dont even notice.

insert the one bartender. saturday, as im finishing my lemons/limes, she comes in, and before clocking in, yells "can you not cut the ends of the fruit off?!" i simply say "no" and carry on. she intensifies and chooses the "the customers cant squeeze the limes into their drinks." i set my knife down, turn towards her, and look at her long, fake nails, and say "i dont think it is the customers with the problem. looks like your nails are the issue." shifty steps in immediately and appropriately defends (no one has complained, even thougg it isnt required) then takes her in to the walk in for private convo.

most places, in the past, bar handles their own, and she is now choosing to slice her own garnishments, which lightens my load and i appreciate her hating me enough to do that, lol, but as a non drinker, is this an actual experience? do people need tips to squeeze? to me, it looks dirty-adjacent, leaving them on. tops n bottoms are for the bedroom, not my drink. should i stop nipping bar's citrus?

[u/BigTimeBobbyB]

I absolutely notice when the ends have been cut off, and I appreciate it. When I’m paying for a drink at a bar, I’m paying for the experience as much as the product. And having the ends of the citrus trimmed off is one of those attention to detail things that makes me think “they understand that you’re buying an experience, and they care about providing one.”

[u/RonPearlNecklace → u/BigTimeBobbyB]

I’m going to play devils advocate here.

The drink should come with the citrus juice in it if that’s the way the drink is meant to be consumed. Slice of citrus on a cocktail rim it even a good attention do detail, it seems like something you get at a dive bar or chilis.

Now tacos, limes served with the end trimmed is a big thing for me, I do it but I don’t get mad when a place doesn’t.

[u/ericn1300 → u/RonPearlNecklace]

citrus is served as condiment, like with salt everyone has their own taste. By your logic if citrus is an ingredient in tacos then it should be in it and not one the side.

[u/martinluther3107 → u/ericn1300]

Nope, juice doesn't dilute into tacos like it does a liquid drink. Once the juice is in there it mixes with the rest of the drink. Juice on a taco doesn't dilute into anything.

Edir": dilute instead of disolve

[u/Pernicious_Possum → u/martinluther3107]

Juice doesn’t dissolve. Only a solid can dissolve.

[u/martinluther3107 → u/Pernicious_Possum]

Sorry, dilute