Are there really bars that will leave the whole liquor bottle with the customer?

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1. They will. Not everywhere because it isn’t responsible. But I bet you can find a place that will especially if it is just a partial bottle.

   It is mostly a movie trope.

   Some places have bottle service. It is more of a thing at clubs rather than bars. You but a bottle for some absurd price but it deserves you a table and they’ll make cocktails from that bottle as long as you are there. But that is for groups not individuals.

2. Are there? Yes. Are they common, no – that’s irresponsible. Plus they’re still getting charged for each shot… big money vs just buying a bottle on your own.

3. I’ve never seen that in a movie

4. Assuming you bought the whole bottle, yes. This can happen at bars / clubs in any country. The entire bottle at those places are expensive though so only rich people would even do this.

5. I’ve only seen this in nightclubs where people can buy bottles, but there has to be X amount of people. Never seen it at an actual bar though. Sounds like a liability.

6. You can.. but it’s more of a status thing than anything else. Bar markup on liquor is ridiculous..I used to manage a bar. So if you’re willing to pay double or triple what the actual bottle is worth, sure. What owner or manager wouldn’t take that kind of money? But you’d almost have to know the owner/manager/bartender bc nobody wants anyone getting into an accident and suing the shit out of the person who overserved. Happened to a girl I knew. She was the last person to serve an individual who went on to crash into a family and killed them all. She got taken to court right along with the drunk driver.

7. During Covid some bars were required to stop selling alcohol at 10 but didn’t need to close and could keep selling non alcoholic drinks so they would just sell the bottle by ten then keep selling the customer whatever mix they wanted

8. No, not like that… some upscale bars/lounges offer “bottle service” where you pay like $200 for a whole bottle of liquor and some mixers (soda, juice, etc)

9. It’s called bottle service. You can also say “leave the bottle” and they will, but charge you a lot assuming they are legally allowed to do so in the state they are in

10. My wife and I ordered the “house” cab at a regional steakhouse a while back. $50 for the bottle.

    She found it on the bottom shelf of Whole Foods a month later for $8.99 lol.

    Bottle of wine is very common. Ordering an entire bottle of hard liquor would be very expensive. Its probably mostly a way to get the actor playing the bartender out of the scene.

11. As someone who has watched way too much Bar Rescue, yes. Horribly irresponsible, but some will

12. Yes.

    My sister had a dry wedding, which *really* pissed my dad off.

    So he went to the hotel bar and told the bartender he would give him $100 for a bottle of scotch. The bartender handed the bottle over and said “bring it back when it’s empty so I can say I dropped it” lol

13. Sure they might but your paying a good chunk of change for that bottle.

14. Yes. Absolutely you have to buy it though.