How do you announce last call at your establishment?

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3:30am "Hey guys just so you know we're doing last call now"

3:45am "Alright Alright Alright thanks guys that's it we're gunna try and get everyone outta here by 4"

3:55am: Me- "sorry not serving anymore" AdvancedDrunk- "but it's not 4am yet!!!! YOU CAN SERVE TILL 4!!!!"

4:00am "Alright Alright Alright guys we're done serving time to move it on out"

4:15am "thanks for coming out guys be safe"

Anyone left after 4:20am "GET THE FUCK OUT OR I WILL KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY I STILL HAVE TO CLEAN UP ALL OF YOU BASTARDS VOMIT RESTOCK THE BAR COUNT OUT THE REGISTER AND TAKE OUT THE TRASH"

keep your arms and legs in the bar until it comes to a complete stop.

"Fuck off i wanna go home"

Bar is quiet enough at closing time that light on and chairs up usually gets people out, but when theres a drunken couple dancing in a fully lit musicless room, thats my go to line.

2:15- Oh shit I lost track of time, ok. "Alright everyone super last call! Everyone needs to get the fuck out!" Actual quote from last week

One of my favorite bars plays Purple Rain and turns the lights back on.

We used to play Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money, pour 151 on the ground, light it on fire and throw our cinnamon/sugar mixture on it while yelling "last call fireball!". Those were the good old days...

"Seriously John you're the only person left in the place, I want to go to bed. I'll give you another bottle of warm coke to take home."

No really, the man drinks 330ml bottles of room temperature Coca Cola and nothing else, all evening.

We have this one barback who doesn't really give a fuck and has mastered this deep, aggressive voice. He only works weekends, when last call and closing can be an actual annoyance. He'll come out of the back and yell "Well you don't gotta go home, but uh, YOU GOTTA GET THE FUCK UP OUTTA HERE!"

My favorite was always shouted at the top of my lungs "If you don't work here, if you don't sleep here, if you don't sleep with someone who works here, GET THE FUCK OUT!"

Generally received with a chorus of "I'll sleep with you!" and my response of "Sure thing ladies and gentleman, line forms to your left outside that door."

I've got a great big brass bell. During service it is rung by people to indicate they wish to buy a round for the entire bar (happens often). At 1:50am I ring the bell (everyone looks because they think it's free booze), give everyone a deathly glare and "Last call for alcohol", then I pour myself a drink and turn my backs to them. Best part of my day.

Music off, lights up, hockey horn!

I work in a college/sports bar and the law here is everyone needs to be out by bar close, so here's what I generally go with...

30 min out: Announce last call 20 min out: Announce the end of service, lights up, music down 10 min out: Kill the music, start yelling, put the bouncers to work...

My go to bar close songs are John Denver's Country Roads and Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, or anything by John Coltrane if I'm trying to scare off a bunch of 21 year olds.

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Cliche, but it works with most non-assholes.

Loudly

We are now closed! Drive fast and take chances!

@2:40 we yell Last Call as loud as possible in-between songs. One more song plays then we turn on the lights and play Goodbye Horses by Lazarus Q. When that ends I pull drinks out of people hands

"SUCK IT OR FUCK IT!" (Chug your drink or leave it behind)

We have a DJ who hosts karaoke on Friday/Saturday nights, and when it's time for everyone to bounce he plays "The Closing Song" by Red Peters (https://youtu.be/yNCVriK5PjI) It's quite the catchy tune, with a chorus that chimes "Get the fuck outta here!!" We had a substitute DJ once when our normal guy was out of town, and he tried to play "Closing Time". I told him if he pulls that shit again I'm gonna find and kill all that he loves.

I play closing time by semisonic real loud and crank the lights up

Sunday - Thursday 2AM Close: Bar usually quietens down enough to just close on the fly sometime between 1-2.
Weekends 02:30AM Close: ~2AM Music down, lights up and the ol' abandon ship.

"You can drink all night just not here. Last call!"

I have a bullhorn. It has a button with a siren and one that sings "Ole Ole Ole ole!" I usually fiddle with it like I have no clue what I'm doing then I yell "May I have your attention please, may I have your attention please! Last call! You have x amount of minutes to finish your drinks!" Other times I mix it up with whatever pops in my head. I had a friend years ago with the most epic last call ever. He would yell, "Last call! Last call for alcohol! Time to pick up the pieces of the broken lives you call your own and get the FUCK OUT OF HERE! And remember folks if you're going to drive drunk, make sure you have a car!" That last bit didn't go over too well when I tried it recently. It was deemed inappropriate. Go figure.

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If your not staff or fucking staff get the fuck out!

in the main bar we've got a massive bell we ring and shout 'last orders', in the nightclub bars we just pull down the shutters whilst being yelled at by the drunks that the bouncers are holding back, that's a fun time

I like to play Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle. Most times I don't have to say a word as my regulars know exactly what it means when I play it.

We have our clocks set to 'bar time' so 15 min fast. 1:30 bar time- music is paused and the person with the biggest lungs (usually me) yells 'LAST CALL, BITCHES', 1:45 bar time- 'We are done serving, come pay your tab or I'm running your card for it'. 10 til close we turn the music off, lights up all the way and I send minions to start collecting glasses.

5 til 2am bar time and I start yelling 'If you don't work here, or fuck someone who does its time to go!!' I always have that one person who waits til 1:59 to pee or ask for a cab to be called (while playing on their cell phone) and expects to be able to stay. Nope nope nope. You had plenty of warning, not my fault you have to stand outside for 20 min because you waited until the last minute.

We have a bell hung up on the wall behind the bar. We slightly turn up the lights, turn down the music a little, ring the bell and yell last call.

We turn lights up for last call, but to get everyone out, all of the bartenders yell, "If you don't work here, sleep here, or sleep with somebody working here, it is time to go!" I've been doing it for years and I'm still not sick of it.

At my main gig we "close" at 10pm on weekdays and 11pm on fri/sat. We're pretty flexible and will stay after our posted hours if there's people still drinking. The latest I've been there is about 1am on a weekend so I don't normally have to kick people out.

The other bar I work at, is usually quiet enough that we can just close between 10-11 on weeknights, or at bar time on weekends (230am). If we happen to have a crowd late though, usually lights up and music down gets em out the door well enough.

We close 10 or 11 depending on the day, our licence ends at midnight. I tell our servers 10 minutes out to let their customers order a last round and I let customers know that we close shortly and last drinks are to be ordered. I don't usually make people leave as they usually are on their way elsewhere (nightclubs/theatre)

I've worked in a few places that have designated last call songs. My bar played the MJ song from Free Willy and another in our company played All I Want For Christmas Is You. Whenever they came on people would know it's time to go.

We ring a bell and flicker the bar lights on and off.

Turn off the music and on the lights. Ask people to leave them tell them to leave.

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A lot of places in England ring a bell like a cow bell (needs more cowbell) or hit a drum. It's odd but everyone understands

We have half a land rover in our bar with a functioning horn. On the weekends, 15 minutes before we stop, we honk it. Shuts everyone up and let's us yell LAST CALL.

We liked to play nature documentaries around closing time. Gets people outta the bar and is an educational experience!

We play In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins rather loudly as the final song of the night, then after close lights slowly rise over 30 minutes or so before we politely ask whoever is left to pack it on up.

In my current bar we ring a bell 15 min before close.

At my old bar, we used to kill the music for 30 seconds. Then we'd put on new York I love you by lcd soundstage. As the song builds, we'd gradually increase the lighting, and by the crescendo we'd reach all the lights up. Then kill all music. Worked quite well.

We try to mix it up as often as possible. We have done it as a strip joint, airline pilot, “attention Walmart shoppers”, a baseball stadium, etc.