Sunny Day

Old friend is a dealer in Vegas. He came home to visit his parents, so we went to the new casino here for a couple of drinks. They bill themselves as Vegas style experience. Hard to do that when your steakhouse is closed one day a a week and they have to stop selling drinks at 2 a.m. When we sat down at the bar, there only only 2 other people sitting there. My friend ordered beer & I a whiskey and water, no ice so it was easy to tell how much was in the glass. After about 10 minutes my drink was down to about 1 sip. For the next 10 minutes neither of the 2 bartenders looked at me or my drink, despite I was sitting directly in front of the ice bin. The barback also never noticed my drink despite pouring several containers of ice in the bin. The manager came from the back a couple of times never noticed my drink. Granted drink servers were coming up to the bar to get drinks for gamblers. But they weren't that busy.
Finally asked the barback if he'd get the manager. Suddenly I had all 4 in front of me. I explained I wasn't mad, but they really needed to pay more attention to their their , if my glass is empty then that's a drink they didn't sell and a tip they don't get. Usually bartenders & servers ask me if I want another before it's 1/2 gone.

If customers don't get drinks it can be a quick road to bankruptcy. A friend's wife lost the restaurant her grandmother started. Great food, but after getting a drink from your server they seemed to always wait until you only had a bite or two of food left. Too late for another then. Had the servers been on the ball, they could have sold one or two more rounds per table and probably doubled their earnings. The amazing part was that every sever did that not just a couple.