{"id":2618,"date":"2011-06-22T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:11:25","slug":"a-156000-bar-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/a-156000-bar-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 A $156,000+ Bar Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/hockey\/bruins\/extras\/bruins_blog\/2011\/06\/the_big_bad_bru.html\">Boston.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When all was said and done, the Black and Gold racked up a four-hour bar tab that totaled $156,679.74, which included the now-famous $100,000.00 bottle of Ace of Spades &#8220;Midas&#8221; champagne, and a built-in tip of $24,869.80 for Danielle (the server whose name is on top of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/hockey\/bruins\/extras\/bruins_blog\/2011\/06\/the_big_bad_bru.html#bartab\">the tab below<\/a>), which we imagine she had to split up with a few other servers at Shrine. And our guess is the Bruins may not have noticed the built-in tip, and threw in a larger gratuity when the bill was paid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$7,500 in CT alcohol taxes. It would have been much cheaper to celebrate an hour north in New Hampshire. Just my opinion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/hockey\/bruins\/extras\/bruins_blog\/jun11\/bar_tab_bruins.jpg\">Here&#8217;s the\u00a0receipt\u00a0image<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston.com: When all was said and done, the Black and Gold racked up a four-hour bar tab that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Ge","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7713,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/travel-revisiting-jiggers-the-noble-drugstore-one-year-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Travel: Revisiting Jigger&#8217;s &#8211; The Noble Drugstore (One Year Later)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year's Post The last time I visited Jigger's, the lounge was pretty new, the owner was talented but had yet to place highly in a world cocktail competition in Brazil (but I believe placed very high in European competitions) and I was expecting simple cocktails after work and ended\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jigger's The Noble Drugstore - Ghent Belgium","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8243\/8515630150_e4bcf5113b_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8243\/8515630150_e4bcf5113b_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8243\/8515630150_e4bcf5113b_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":859,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/joining-the-apple-blog-as-a-contributing-writer\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 Joining The Apple Blog as a Contributing Writer","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"For the longest time, I've been blogging for myself. 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