New York City Bartenders & Patrons

Let's have some bartender news from all over the map today...

ILLINOIS: A former bartender from Ireland, Kevin McTernan, started a cab service in suburban Chicago to get drunks and their cars home from bars. He started his service, Paddy Wagons, after he quit drinking and started a family. "I've seen a lot of people stumble out of the bar with intentions to drive," he said. "People driving drunk does not appeal to me." Now he passes out cards in bars to get people to reserve his service.

IOWA: So a guys walks into a bar and orders a drink a bartender does not know how to make. Do you know the ingredients to a Pissed Off Japanese Minnow Farmer? Well the bartender said he'd make it if someone gave him the recipe. Lucky for the customer, he whipped out his iPhone (a novelty in Iowa City?) and pulled up the recipe for the bartender.

UPSTATE NEW YORK -- A bar owner accused of letting an off-duty bartender drink too much before she caused a fatal car wreck on Super Bowl Sunday says he never saw her drink alcohol that day. This happened in Patterson, north of Danbury on the state line.

MANHATTAN -- How do you avoid champagne fatigue? The New York Sun asked a veteran bartender Jonathan Pogash to show off some cocktails made with champagne. Pogash worked at one of my favorite bars, the Campbell Apartment.

PARIS --- A Francis Bacon painting sold for 13.7 million euros ($20.2 million) at a Paris auction. Bacon's ``Seated Woman,'' a 1961 portrait of London bartender Muriel Belcher, went to an unnamed bidder in the auction room, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said. Seated Woman portrays an isolated woman on a seemingly dismantled couch. It shows her seated practically hunched over, and almost suspended between two swathes of lilac and bottle green. Muriel Belcher was a bartender at the Colony Room, Bacon’s favorite drinking hole in London.

NEW JERSEY -- Restaurant people are tops -- and doctors lead the terrible tippers list, as compiled by Bartender Magazine. The Best and Worst Tippers List is based on over 3,000 telephone and web site responses conducted by Bartender Magazine.

The Tippers Lists:

MAGNIFICENT SERVICE
Restaurant People
Regular Customers
Small Business Owners
Hairdressers
Liquor Salesmen
Limo Drivers
Salesmen

TERRIBLE TIPPERS
Doctors
Lawyers
Bankers
21-25 Year Olds
Teachers
Computer Nerds
Pipe Smokers

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