Codes are really useful behind the bar, they make things faster, easier, cooler. Dealing with customers also gets smother as people don't really want to hear you speaking about them.
If the whole team knows certain codes and uses them on a daily bases, work becomes simply more efficient and also creates a great relation between colleagues.
Some codes are really popular in many bars and some are unique to a place, 86 for instance, sometimes even customers know what do you mean when shouting 86 Jack Daniels. Code '10-15' on the other hand is a truly unique to a small group of bartenders I've been working with. Let me put it this way - it means a seriously hot chick. I could categorize codes in to 3 groups :
Discrete
88 - Imagine sitting on a bar with 2 bartenders behind, on some point you hear one of them letting his mate know that he is going to the toilet. Absolutely normal thing, everyone has to, but after couple of minutes, that guy is coming back and you are downing a last sip of your drink. He's offering you another one, he's going to make it now, but did he washed his hands ? well if he would have said he is going 'eighty-eight' or any other code that his colleague would understood you would never even thought about it. There are things that you have to communicate with your work mates and customers shouldn't know about codes are great for that purpose
200 is what you tell your mate who is being curious and reads back labels of bottles meanwhile people are waiting to be served and you are busy yourself. It sounds much better to say 'mate two hundred behind you' than ' there is a dude who wants a drink on the bar'
400 - intoxicated customer. Pretty obvious thing drunk people don't wanna hear that you think they are drunk, but you still have to communicate this fact with rest of your team
Fast
86 - mentioned before simply means that we have run out of an item, but make sure that we really don't have it before telling everyone '86' something, if there is a shortage of it that would be an 85
50 - How quick can you say 'fifty' ? I recon about 4 times faster that 'watch out - flying object'. If you work at flair bar, there is a big chance that quick 50 could save you quite a few of bruises or even injuries.
Fun
700 - as explained before attractive customer. You can play with this one a lot I've tried with my work colleagues to make some sort of rating system on how attractive a person is, where 710 would be smoking hot and 690 a Godzilla on the bar. It didn't really worked for us in that time. I guess it was too complicated, took to much time to explain, however I think idea is worth spreading.
701 - a customer attractive enough. I don't think that this one needs much explanation.
a lonely seven hundred
These codes were used in bars I have been working at, you obviously might have learned different ones or you can give them different numbers, but the idea is still the same. Keeping communication quick and efficient will always help you in everyday life. It gets to the point that I often use those codes outside of my workplace. If there is something coming to your mind or there is a code you have been using write them down in comments below.
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