Letting go a Longtime Bartender

GoBurgeR


uumm, well, women got mentioned because the OP has trouble with a female employee.....
i dont think looking at something for what it is, is not necessarily sexist...... if its a college bar with 75% female customers, a younger, well built stud would be the perfect choice behind the bar, as long as he has all the traits that make a good bartender......

would the sexist comment have been brought up if i was saying to replace a 10 year burn out male bartender, with a younger fresher face stud from the local college ????

Yes...but this topic is about a family restaurant and your first post seemed like an automatic solution as if it was college bar. That is a little unfair to male bartenders who may not be either  "stud whatevers"  or  "scruffy guys" as well as females (contrary to your personal belief) who as far from being a burn out just because of any particular age . How you feel personally is your own personal business. That does not neccessarily translate to good business.

uumm, no.......
the topic was about a burned out bartender, the environment of said bartender is pretty irrelevant
 
and burned out does not mean old..... if she started when she was 18......that would make her 28....still pretty young, but not immune to being burned out 
 
im getting the impression that there is an age sensitivity issue underlying this thread...... neither of us know how old she may be so lets try and stay off the age issue, not that it matters now anyway, as we have totally railroaded this thread into mush....
 
my personal feelings have nothing to do with the original post, a bad apple is a bad apple, cut out the cancer and get down to business.
 
bottom line is.....good bartenders are a dime a dozen, spectacularly great bartenders are few and far between, but can be molded from a good bartender given a enough time....... male or female has nothing really to do with it,neither does age, though in REALITY each aspect has its own special needs and considerations to be dealt with.

Well it did sort of come into play with the young flirty hottie statements. I can say without a doubt that I personally am not sensitive about my age. If anything looking my age would be more of a blessing rather than a curse.

GoBurgeR



im getting the impression that there is an age sensitivity issue underlying this thread...... neither of us know how old she may be so lets try and stay off the age issue, not that it matters now anyway, as we have totally railroaded this thread into mush....

 

age is a sensitive issue around here because we're all old.

I can't say what things are like in bars these days, but I can speak the the phenomenon of Windy, the barmaid at the Powderhorn in Charlotte Amalie. Windy (about whom a popular little ditty was wrote in the '60s) was a rather attractive young thing who wore very, very short skirts when she worked -- and no undergarments. The beer coolers were at the backbar, and traffic at the bar itself was usually three deep when Windy was working and bending over the coolers to retrieve beer as it was ordered.
 
Who was the beer ordered from?  "Everyone knows, it's Windy."

Michael Hoffman

Who was the beer ordered from?  "Everyone knows, it's Windy."

Oh Michael! Now I'm stuck with that song and image in my head! Too funny!

Sorry about that.

 
Maybe. We all  do not look old. Fresh yes. Always.
 

That photo reminds me of a barmaid I used to know a long time ago.

 

That one guy has his eyes on somethin somethin.

So what ended up happening?

I have a saying that I will put on my apron when I open my food truck, "My friends call me The Caribbean Character but at work I'm known as "Yes, Chef". Whether or not my employees and I are friends outside of work, business is business.