adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s an old bar trick to serve the performers the drinks the house wants to sell to everyone else — except what they really serve them is water or colored water.
This is also done after the set, where if someone buys them a drink, the house gives them water and charges the person for the drink, and the performer gets a cut of the money.
That way, the performer can accept as many drinks as are offered without being unable to perform their next set.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Yeah I wouldn’t buy anybody drinking whiskey on stage. Sipping beer, maybe.