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    John's Bartending Services

    5.0 (68 reviews)
    Open 9:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    The lovely Janet poured safely for a small celebration during the pandemic
    Andrea R.

    Hiring a bartender during a pandemic can be scary, but John took every precaution necessary to make me and my guests feel at ease for my small 40th bday backyard celebration. His communication from day 1 was perfection where he outlined pricing (3 hours for $105) and covid precautions taken (masked bartender, hand sanitizer provided at bar and no bartenders to show flu like symptoms). We booked Grace for our Friday evening party, but as the day approached the weather forecast wasn't cooperating and I let John know I had interest in moving to the next night. He said no problem and informed me that Janet would now be working our event. Janet was a joy to have at the event. When she arrived she let me know she first had to call John to let him know that I wasn't a murderer (apparently I looked OK after a few min meeting :)). I thought it was sweet how he looked after his employees, but later found out Janet was his wife so apparently a good husband AND employer. She mentioned that the original bartender, Grace, was their niece and I love that it's a family biz. Janet was friendly and chatty with all guests. We had separated the bar (in the driveway) from the food area of the party (backyard) to spread things out during covid. Most guests stayed in the backyard and Janet did her best to come around and pour drinks to cater to the guests. She also kept me updated when we were running low on specific types of wine so I could get more from inside and also passed around waters when she thought necessary. I've hired many bartenders in the past, but this was probably my best experience yet and I'll be reaching out to them again for any and all bartending needs.

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    John was wonderful to work with and the bartender, Grace, was outstanding. She was a huge help throughout the party.

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    John worked as the bartender and Janet made sure we as hosts were having fun instead of working ourselves.

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    Our Bartender David was great at our wedding reception!! There were a few hiccups during the event…read morebut he handled everything with grace and kindness! Thank you guys!! You were amazing!

    Our event took place and we are not the happiest with the service. The bartender that was provided…read moredid show up early to setup for the event which was awesome, however A few things would've made our event perfect but, had a lot of complaints throughout the night and when you are hosting the bar should be the last thing to worry about when you hire a company. The bartender that was provided was NOT knowledgeable about the 4 speciality cocktails that we picked from your list. Every time a guest wanted one of the drinks he had to Google the recipe on how to make it, which made the line long at some point throughout the night. He also was asking the host for other ingredients that were not on the inventory list provided in the booking process. At another point of the night he asked the host what was "Brandy". A consistent sanitary method of getting ice would have been very considerate seeing as through you are serving guest and should not be using your hand to grab ice. At a point in the night we were very tempted to ask him to leave and we would've figured out the rest of the night but, do to the fact we had guest there and we honored our contract, we just left it alone to make it through the party. There was also a moment to where we had to ask him to get back to the bar to make drinks as he was up making a plate of food a couple of times throughout the night. The invoice that was sent to us is incorrect. Our balance should only be $187.50. Once we get the corrected version, we will make that payment. Lastly, we were impressed in the beginning of our booking with the level of communication we received which is why we chose to book you all. As we got closer to the day of the event, we reached out via email and thumbtack for an update and check in and never received a response from our reaching out. It would've been nice to speak to the bartender before the day of.

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