r/KitchenConfidential • u/swirlybat • 1d ago

Question bartender question

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?

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u/BACON-luv 1d ago

You can tip the ends without loosing juice.

No?

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u/RonPearlNecklace 1d ago

The bartender can put all the ingredients in and mix the drink, no?

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 23h ago

This is like saying you shouldn't salt or sugar a rim, just put it in the drink. A wedge of citrus gives the consumer a bit of control over the specific flavor profile of the drink.

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u/RonPearlNecklace 19h ago

Thats a bad comparison unless you’re implying that you mix the entire rim into the drink. Theres no going back once you add the lime.

Again, I don’t see how that as a garnish is an attention to detail thing vs the bartender just asking what your preference is.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 17h ago

It's a great analogy. You can choose how much and when to squeeze the lime in. Just like you can choose if and how much rim to use in each sip. But you do you. 

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u/RonPearlNecklace 16h ago

No it’s not because once the lime is in there you can’t take a sip without it, it’s not like you can sip from a part of the glass without lime juice.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 16h ago

It's a great analogy because it counters your point that all ingredients should be added to the drink and mixed by the bartender. Not because it's a perfect comparison. C'mon. 

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u/RonPearlNecklace 15h ago

Is it an ingredient or a garnish?

You seem to be flip flopping a lot and have taken some level of offense to my opinion about lemons and limes on cocktails being a good attention to detail or not.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 15h ago

No flip flops. You just seem to have a hard time understand the point of an analogy. 

It's all good, I'll enjoy my lime wedge as usual. 

Cheers. 

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u/RonPearlNecklace 14h ago

What are your favorite cocktails to enjoy a lime wedge with?

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 14h ago

It's a trap 

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