Total Control Is the Only Way to Run a Bar

...otherwise the employees start talking back, and that requires beatdowns, which tends to get in the way of the business at hand, which is to keep your hair properly feathered, to attract local hotties, to hook up with doc, to get nostalgic with Wade Garrett, and to thwart the local evil mastermind, Brad Wesley.

Why I Run the Show, Completely

Running a bar ain't easy. At every bar I've ever worked at, there have been 40-year old adolescents, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry.

And they generally carry knives with them too. And they ain't loath to insert said knives in your shoulders. Or to mess up your carefully-feathered hair. And that ain't no joke.