Clean the top of your counter first, remove all utensils from under the counter and place them on the top; clean your bench. Before beginning with your glassware, add a little salt to the water as it will help in polishing your glasses. Fill all your liquor bottles, pack your working boxes with fine ice, cut up the fruit for immediate use, clean your silverware. Fill your ice-boxes with ice. Afterward clean your back bar.

As an appropriate suit behind the bar I would mention the following: a pair of black trousers, a long, white apron, a white shirt, a white collar, a black tie, a white vest, and a white coat; care should be taken to have the suit fit well; have the sleeves of your coat cut, that you may button it tight; this will prevent its getting soiled and worn out; never have your suit starched.

Glassware

In selecting your glassware, choose perfectly white color, also for your bottles, as they look much more inviting. To keep them clean, use egg-shells, salt, paper, or chopped ice. It should be remembered that shot is very poisonous and scratches the glass. Soda ought also to be avoided. Use only plain but good glassware, it being the best.