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The British pub is an icon, identified all over the world, however they’re very completely different from a typical bar within the states. Let’s speak about that. Listed here are 5 massive variations between British and American bars.
1: Our bartenders sometimes make no cash.
Whereas the bartenders in America are capable of make enormous quantities of ideas from week to week given the tradition, British bar employees will usually make lower than £5-10 in a shift.
That being mentioned, the wages for a bartender within the UK are sometimes a little bit larger than within the US, round £8 (or $12) an hour. Should you’re seeking to make extra cash within the UK hospitality business, working as a server in a restaurant is nearly all the time extra profitable.
2: If a cocktail isn’t explicitly on the menu, you in all probability can’t have it.
After we visited the US, one factor I used to be stunned to see was pretty brief cocktail menus in most bars. It turned out that this was as a result of American bars sometimes solely listing their specialities, as bartenders are usually anticipated to know the classics by default.
Nevertheless within the UK, many bars will listing their full repertoire of cocktails and the employees will solely be educated to make what’s on the menu. Whereas drinks like Negronis at the moment are beginning to seem on some pub menus, except you’re in a excessive finish bar its in all probability greatest to stay to the listing.
3: Meals could also be served for actually bizarre hours.
Should you’re at an unbiased pub or bar, you might effectively discover that the kitchen is closed within the afternoons, defining a break between lunch and dinner service.
That being mentioned, it was solely within the late 80s that pubs had been capable of serve alcohol between 2:40pm and 6:30pm – repealing the World Warfare One “Defence of the Realm” Act, designed to maintain the employees at munitions factories from drunkenly blowing themselves up.
4: Our pubs look method cooler.
One of many advantages of getting what we name “historical past” within the UK, is that many elderly pubs appear like a set from Harry Potter. When you gained’t have the ability to take pleasure in a butter beer in virtually any of them, it is possible for you to to rejoice in a mix of stained glass home windows, uneven flooring, ceiling beams and doorways so small as handy out concussions like an American soccer faculty scholarship.
5: We love gin greater than something proper now.
Whereas the picture of the Pub is usually of the “heat” actual ales which might be pumped by hand from the cellar (so really served round 11 levels Celsius), you’re extra prone to discover Gin & Tonics the order of the day. Craft spirits within the UK have been lead by gin, not whiskey and plenty of pubs now have lengthy lists of gins out there.
Oh, and don’t even point out tonic from a gun, we’ll have bottled tonic thanks very a lot!
After all, we even have a number of the greatest cocktail bars on the earth right here within the UK, and so they’ll make you no matter you’d like, together with the thriving unbiased bar scene. Should you’d like to listen to extra about these, or what I missed on this video, let me know within the feedback!
Music: “Secret of Tiki Island” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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