Kennt jemand Pelam Lime Juice Cordial? Irgendwelche Erfahrungen?
http://www.gastro24.de/Barzubehoer/Zutaten/Pelam-Lime-Juice-Cordial-1-Liter.html
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Der schreckt mich alleine schon farblich extrem ab, Packaging und Preis tragen noch dazu bei.
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Das erinnert mich an eine Liste....
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VETO ;D
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Das Veto ignoriere ich einfach mal und erlaube mir, ein paar Listen zu posten, die Philipp Duff einmal veröffentlicht hat (ja, richtig gelesen, gleich ein paar Listen... Der Mann ist ein großer Listenkönner ;D).
Lassen wir also Phil zu Wort kommen (der übrigens ganz rein zufällig denselben Vornamen trägt wie ein berühmtes Murmeltier, an dass jetzt wahrscheinlich der ein oder andere denkt):
Brands
1. Brands that fake their heritage are just sad.
2. A rising tide lifts all boats.
3. If you're going to do something, do it right.
4. There's no such thing as natural flavour. Amyl acetate is the flavour of bananas; whether you extract it from real bananas or from vinegar mixed with amyl alcohol and sulphuric acid.
5. You need to balance the information needs of the largely clueless mass market with the small but highly informed segment of key influencers.
6. Don't waste your money.
7. You can't reach every segment of the market with just one tactic.
8. Balance the image you'd like your brand to have with what consumers appear to empathise with. At the moment.
Drinks
1. It's all about the drink.
2. In terms of liquor: "Smooth tasting" = "Boring".
3. It's fine to buy a cocktail or liquor brand just because you like the way it's marketed. It's also OK to order a cocktail because you think the garnish looks cool.
4. It's fine to drink RTDs. If you're 18 or younger, that is.
5. There is no such thing as a chocolate martini.
6. You're supposed to be able to taste the booze.
7. Freshly squeezed lemon juice. Freshly squeezed lime juice. Home made sugar syrup. Fresh fruits. No premixes. Authentic, or at least plausible, ingredients. Logical recipes. Proper techniques. Decent glassware. Fitting garnishes. And the same every time.
8. Not everything from yesteryear was better.
9. A cocktail will not make you a better person, richer, more charming, more attractive or funnier. Although it may seem that way at the time.
10. A cocktail can be full of flavour and strong like a Manhattan, or refreshing and long, like a Kentucky Lemonade. Pick one. You can't have both.
11. In the same vein, you can have the drink made right or you can have it real quick. Pick one.
12. Knowledge enhances pleasure.
13. It's hard to believe if you're under 25 or so, but strong-tasting drinks, sour-tasting drinks and bitter-tasting drinks can be delicious, if (as always) they are well-made. That's why martinis, margaritas and Negronis have been around for so long. You don't have to find them tasty yourself (yet), but you do need to appreciate that other people like them.
bartending
1. Someone who is only good with guests, or who can only make good drinks, or is just conscientious and professional, isn't a good bartender. A good bartender is all three.
2. Good working flair, or mixology, or both, helps sell drinks. Good service makes it profitable.
3. Don't criticise something you can't do.
4. The customer is only infrequently right. But they're always the customer.
5. And while we're at it, they are guests, not customers. Albeit paying guests.
6. People don't buy drinks or bottles: they buy into a lifestyle.
7. Your first loyalty is to your boss, so pick a good one.
8.You make more money in the long run if you work sober, don't steal and don't get romantically involved with guests. Or colleagues.
9. Hygiene, speed, efficiency, freepour accuracy and the cleaning schedule are a pain in the ass. And you'll miss them if you go to work in a dirty bar with sauntering, inefficient muppets who can't pour straight and won't clean.
10. Not everyone tips, or tips much, or tips all the time. But if you're nice to everyone, tip or not, you'll notice more and more people tipping you more.
11. Study and practise in your spare time.
12. Making and serving great drinks isn't bartending. Performing great flair isn't bartending. Being fast, efficient, polite, hygienic, diplomatic and funny isn't bartending. All of these skills are tools you use to bartend with.
Training
1. Hire a potential bartender for his or her personality. You can teach everything else. And promote through the ranks: busboys can become waitstaff, waitstaff can become barbacks, and barbacks can become bartenders.
2. If you train your staff, there's a chance they might leave and work elsewhere. But if you don't train them there's a risk that they will never leave, and you're stuck with an untrained bartender for ever.
3. Drinks brands can help train your staff. That's "help", not "completely".
4. A 5-day training program can get a new bartender up to 80% of the speed and efficiency of an experienced, trained bartender. But if you don't train new bartenders, they'll typically hover around 50% of their top speed - for EVER.
5. Good training idea #1: Label everything behind the bar, specify where it should be, and draw diagrams. Write a staff manual for all employees and a specific bartender manual for the bar. Create a training program for bartenders that combines classroom teaching, written exams, hands-on training and shadowing an experienced bartender on increasingly busy shifts.
6. Good training idea #2: If you need to train up 1 bartender, try to identify 2 candidates. Make it clear to them that only the one who scores highest throughout the training gets the job.
7. Good training idea #3: Set up a quiet station or a little-used bar with water in the liquor bottles and juice containers. Use it to teach pourtesting, speed & and efficiency, drinkmaking techniques and to simulate serving guests. This is also a very good and inexpensive way to get trainees used to making the common drinks served in your bar.
8. Good training idea #4: After he/she graduates the training program, start a new bartender off on the service bar, serving waitstaff, and/or on quieter nights. Don't move them onto busier, higher-pressure bigger-money shifts like Saturday night until they've proved their skills.
9. Bad training idea #1: Throw untrained staff behind the bar, or "allow" those who can't pass the training program to bartend anyway, because you don't care or because you're short of staff.
Soweit der gute Phil...
