So there's this new show on TV called Drink Masters. I was an award winning bartender for 18 years in a 4 star hotel cocktail lounge and I just had to laugh at this show. Oh sure their creations are quite cream but in the real world of cocktail lounges you don't have 30 minutes to make a drink 🤣. On a busy night I'd have to make >50 drinks in that time.
So true!
I used to get (internally) so furious when anyone ordered a fancy cocktail.
@NorthernInvader
I used to coach customers to order a super-dry martini. They were in a luxury hotel, so they deserved a treat, but I had glasses to polish 😉
It made them feel fancy, and there was a little theatre with the swizzle stick (I contend that James Bond is just watering down his drink with the 'shaken, not stirred' thing 😉 ), but it's just a slightly complicated way to drink straight gin so it didn't suck up too much time.