Bartenders reveal all the ways they're secretly judging you for your drink

Old Fashioned Bartender

Bartenders can tell a lot about a person based on their drink order.
Some drinks scream boring idiot, while others make you look polished and knowledgeable.
Several bartenders shared what specific drink orders indicate to them about a person.

Bartending isn't just about mixing cocktails and serving up beers.

Perhaps one of the most social jobs out there, bartending requires constant contact with others and a great deal of social perceptiveness.

So, when you're a bartender, you come to understand quite a few things about human nature and behavior, and you have some go-to tools that help.

"You can tell what type of person someone is by their drink order in specific bars," Anjali Sharma, a former bartender with eight years of experience from Atlanta, told Business Insider.

For example, "if you're in a bar with tons of other people and it's loud and you order something complicated, you clearly don't value people's time," she said. "How you react to the bar being out of your 'usual' is also very indicative of your personality," she said.

Rebecka, a bartender with 10 years of experience in New York and Glasgow, told Business Insider that someone's drink order can also indicate that they have no idea where they are and what's possible to be made in a certain bar.

Other things bartenders said they can pick up on based on their drink order include if the person is underage, has no clue about mixology — "which is fine but disappointing because there are so many great cocktails out there!" an anonymous bartender said — is boring, wants to use money to impress people, know their alcohol, or is looking for a cheap buzz.

Here's what bartenders think about your drink of choice:

Shots are often a bad sign to bartenders

"When you go for shots, I think 'trouble,'" a bartender in New York with eight years of experience told Business Insider.

Or, as another bartender in the US Virgin Islands put it, "Shots equal jacka-- juice."

Ordering expensive shots in particular makes you look foolish

"Some people will buy loads of expensive shots when out in groups," a bartender from Ireland with 12 years of experience told Business Insider. "They're trying to look flash."

But for all your attempts to look cool, bartenders say you just wind up looking the fool.

"You look stupid when you order expensive shots," a former bartender from New York with 10 years of experience told Business Insider. "The whole point is to get it down quickly — you're not enjoying the quality."

Overly sweet shots don't make you look great either

"Shots of Chartreuse, Jager, Goldschlager, or Fireball are abhorrently sweet and low on alcohol and tell me that you are a hipster who has no clue what you are doing," Jennifer Sun, a bartender with five years of experience in New Haven, Connecticut, told Business Insider.

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