I mean all your production shots even when slammed or not. I got busted by a regular today. I'd just pulled myself a dopio and quaffed it when a couple regulars who work next door stopped in for their afternoon Americanos. Two 12oz dopio Americanos coming right up! Ground and pulled the first, it looked just like the one I'd quaffed. Handed him his 'cano while another dopio pulling for 2nd 'cano. Now I almost always smell the shots, almost always! Didn't the first and did the second. And he busted me and asked "did you smell my shot!" Man did I feel low. I apologized telling him I'd just pulled myself a shot and it was spot on and his pulled identically first by build feel and then by timing and shot look but I should have smelled it. I asked how it tasted, he said excellent as always so sort of off the hook but not really.
Trust me, that won't happen again. If you smell your shots as part of your quality control customers will notice. And they'll notice when/if you don't!
Heck it's sometimes fun joking with customers after smelling their shot and then telling them something like "sorry, that smells too good so I'll have to drink it and pull you another one", then of course continuing building their drink if it's not a straight shot of course. I've yet to actually drink a customers shot. But I have a few customers I think I will actually do it one of these days just for kicks. We're on good enough terms they'll get a laugh out of it. I hope. If not they'll just complain to the owner. (Wait, oh no, that's me:-)
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