Jeff Burkhart: ...the minute you make a rule, people will try to get around it

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What’s it like to be a bartender? How do you handle people who’ve had too much to drink? Do people really tell their troubles to bartenders and what do bartenders say in response? Our guest, Jeff Burkhart, is a longtime bartender and newspaper columnist, in addition to being the author of the book, "Twenty Years Behind Bars: The spirited adventures of a real bartender". His website is https://www.jeffburkhart.net/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:14.0	I'm Jan Black.
0:15.0	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.6	What's it like to be a bartender?
0:18.6	How do you handle people who have had too much to drink?
0:21.0	Do people really tell their troubles to bartenders?
0:23.4	And what do bartenders say in response?
0:25.6	Our guest, Jeff Burkhardt, joins us to shed light on those questions.
0:29.5	Jeff is a longtime bartender and newspaper columnist,
0:32.2	in addition to being the author of the book, 20 years behind bars,
0:36.3	the spirited adventures of a real bartender.
0:38.8	Jeff, thanks for joining us.
0:40.6	I'm happy to be here.
0:41.7	Thank you.
0:42.6	Obvious question.
0:43.6	How did you become a bartender?
0:46.3	It was by accident, really.
0:48.4	I mean, I'd started out in the restaurant business as a high school student.
0:52.1	I had originally been in construction, and it was a
0:55.5	hard work, hard work, but I needed something I could do after school. So I started working in a
1:00.4	restaurant business, and I remember cooking for a while. And what happened was I went to a meeting,
1:06.4	a restaurant meeting, and I was sitting there in my dirty cooks clothes after working a 12-hour shift,
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