This episode is dedicated to Jeremy Clarke. RIP 🇺🇸 🥩 🍔 🐄 🍃 💨 🫡

Welcome to the chaotic premiere episode of 86 Service! We are diving straight into the deep end of the restaurant industry with our guest star, Sean. As a front-of-house bartender with a great personality and endless patience for the madness, Sean brings the ultimate FOH perspective to the table… proving that if you just listen to people for ten minutes at the bar, you will meet some truly interesting characters.

In This Episode:

The Fire Alarm Fiasco: We break down a legendary meltdown where a screaming match over a burger temperature escalates out of control. After a hot-headed server gets cut and loses her open tables, she exacts her revenge by pulling the fire alarm, leaving the crew to take orders with sirens blaring for an hour and a half.

Wild Guests & Bar Fixtures: Sean recounts the unpredictable nature of closing the bar, from a "millionaire" oversharing about his personal life to a creep harassing a coworker about pigtails for three hours, and the absolute primal rage people experience when they are hungry.

Behind Closed (Bathroom) Doors: We recount a jaw-dropping "manager fail" involving a locked employee bathroom, a glass pipe, and a literal bite mark.

Good Bosses vs. Bad Bosses: The crew contrasts the ultimately poor leaders who do nothing with the real leaders who earn respect by getting down in the trenches and working through the rushes alongside their team. #respect

Back-of-House Hazards: We share the literal dirty work, including a grease trap disaster that led to some incredibly unfortunate plumbing and wardrobe malfunctions right in the middle of a shift.

Believe it or not, there are even more wild stories packed into this hour, proving that truth is always stranger than fiction when you work in hospitality.

Join the Conversation!

If you have survived the trenches of the restaurant industry, we want to hear from you. From nightmare to Combat Evolved, submit your own stories to be featured on the show!

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