- Hey guys, how are we doing?
Phil: This is a difficult rescue
because I haven’t even seen the bartenders perform yet,
so we can’t get too crazy with the cocktails tonight.
So part of today is not only are we gonna be training on new drinks,
but I need to look and see where you guys really live
as far as your bartending skills.
- What are people always drinking around here? - Both: Margaritas.
What we’re gonna do is I’m gonna bring you back here.
I just want you guys to make the margarita
that you guys are used to making.
I wanna see how fast you guys make it.
I wanna see what it tastes like, all right?
Your time is gonna start in three, two, one.
Come on.
I feel weird.
I do well under pressure.
I mean, that’s my specialty is high volume bartending.
But it’s opening six beer bottles at a time
or pouring a whiskey coke.
I mean, that’s where my expertise lies.
Ta-da.
You guys all make margaritas the same way?
- You want me to tell you what I put in it? - Yeah.
Sarah, Kym, I want you guys to both come up here together.
Three, two, one, go.
Go, go, go, come on. It’s a busy night.
The band’s playing, it’s cracking.
Let’s go. Pour those drinks.
You guys have plenty of bottles in there.
Let’s go. One, two, three, four--
Okay, we got 3/4 ounce of tequila in there.
That’s gonna be a tasty margarita.
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go.
Shake, shake, shake, like you mean it.
I don’t even wanna drink that one.
We got three margaritas. Three totally different drinks.
We need to make sure that we are making everything consistent.
- We need to fix a lot of stuff. - Yes, sir.
You guys wanna see what drinks you’re gonna be doing today?
- You know we do. - Okay.
We’re gonna do a perfect margarita for you guys,
and we’re gonna change the look of it
and change the flavor components of it
just a little bit to make it your own.
We’re gonna use the volcanic black lava salt.
Half ounce of agave syrup and one ounce of lime juice.
And I’m gonna do a half ounce of the blue curaçao
and one and a half ounce of tequila.
And last but not least, two dashes of orange bitters.
Let’s do it.
- That beautiful color right there. - That is awesome.
- Looks cool. - Nice little black rim.
There you have it, guys.
This is gonna be the margarita
that Fort Worth Stockyards are talking about.
- Boom! - It’s so good!
- It looks good. - It is very, very good.
Our focus needs to be to get these drinks out as quick as we possibly can,
so it is all about that speed.
- All right, let’s do it. - All right.
- What’s happening, man? How you doing? - Holy cow.
I’m at home chilling last night. I get a call from Jon.
Jon said, "I need you out here, man. I got this bar--
No kitchen, no menu. It’s gonna be a huge task."
We came in last night, put a little kitchen in.
- Wow. Yeah. - Is it pretty cool?
Jeremy: This room was more of a storage junk pile.
So now we’ve got a great kitchen.
I’m extremely excited.
You gotta have good food at a bar.
And y’all got a lot of competition around here, okay?
This is a nice area. Lot of barbecue in this area.
So we gotta come up with something good
so they can compete with the barbecue around this place.
So what we’re gonna do first
is some mac and cheese pulled pork, okay?
And it’s real quick. You can get it out quick.
Throw a little mac on there.
Throw some pulled pork on there.
- A little barbecue sauce. - Mm-hmm.
Pinch of scallions.
- That is delicious. - Like we say in the South,
- that make me wanna slap your mama. - Don’t slap my mama, though.
I ain’t slapping ( bleep ) my mama neither.
- Y’all ready to do this tonight? - Let’s do it.
Cool. Let’s do it.
Jon: So what I wanna do tonight
is run our stress test for 30 minutes.
So here’s what we’re gonna do.
We’re going to test how the food is received tonight,
and I’m gonna put these straws next to each of your work stations.
Every time you make a drink,
yll just take one of these straws and drop it in the jar.
I want each of our bartenders
to sell 30 drinks in 30 minutes.
- Fair? Reasonable number? - Fair.
- Yes, sir. - We have to maximize our potential.
If we can’t get 90 drinks out in that amount of time,
the stress test will be a failure.
- You guys ready to do this? - Ready.
- Yes, sir. - Okay, let’s get together. We open in about 15 minutes.
For tonight, I need to see Keith and Fred step up as owners.
I expect them to get their business together
and be organized for the stress test.
I also wanna see Luke contribute in some fashion
to prove that he’s a positive, equal partner.
Hello. How are y’all doing?
- This is what we are offering this evening. - Okay.
Two market batch and one of the tequila drinks.
One, two, three, four.
Jon: Guys, you make ’em one at a time, we’ll never get there.
You make ’em four, five at a time-- piece of cake, right?
- Let’s go, let’s go. - Let’s go, ladies.
- Unh-uh. - No?
That’s all blue curaçao. Nobody wants that.
Let’s make it right, ladies, come on.
- How many drinks, Kym? - Three.
- Man: I’m hungry! - Who wants barbecue? Raise your hand.
( cheering )
Get the orders, okay? Let’s go!
- What you need? - Two mac and cheese.
- Two mac and cheese. - What you got, Luke?
- What you got? - I got one mac and cheese.
Three mac and cheese, two taco.
Two mac and cheese. Two mac and cheese.
I need at least ten mac and cheeses, brother.
Jon: All right, we got food coming out!
Six-seven, six-eight.
- Y’all have 67? - No.
Dang it.
( sighs )
This is ridiculous.
Goes this way, then he goes that way.
Then he goes this way, then he goes that way.
You know why he doesn’t know which way to go? ’Cause he’s lost!
- Jeremy, do you know where that goes? - I have no idea.
- 67. - Well, give it to somebody so it doesn’t go cold.
Do you have a card or you wanna pay cash? Okay.
Thank you very much. We appreciate it.
All right, what do we got here?
All right, we got 12 over here. What do we got, Phil?
11, 12, 13!
- What do we got in the middle? - Two, four, five, six.
- ( mimics buzzer ) - Come on, Cece! Let’s go!
At least you’re making the drinks right.
Clearly our weak link is in the middle, right?
Phil: Oh, yes.
She’s at 15. She’s halfway there.
She’s sloppy, too. They’re just slopping the drinks together.
- You have to make them right. - And are Keith or Fred watching the drinks?
- They don’t even know. - Thank you for coming out. Hi, baby. How are you?
Keith, what can you do? Fred, let’s see what you got!
- Jump down and help Kym. Jump down and help Kym. - All right, let’s go.
Hey, start separating cups. They’re sticking.
We’re done to ten minutes. Ten minutes they have,
and they’ve got about 20 drinks to make in ten minutes.
- We’re running out of time. - One, two, three, four.
- What is this? - Vodkas.
Put it away. Five minutes left!
- Five minutes. - Five minutes. Come on!
Jon: You’re at 27. You’re gonna make your 30.
Let’s go. Get these last three out.
- ( cheering ) - I got 24.
Get those last six. Two minutes!
There you go. Pour it.
30 seconds!
- Come on! - Come on!
Five, four, three, two, one!
( bleep )