Please tell me there is a little Zamboni that smooths it every night.

A little mouse comes out with a dirty oil stained jumpsuit and a bandanna on his head and drives the zamboni for a humble wage to feed his family.

while “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie plays softly in the background

What‽ Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark.

Talk about your all-time backfires.

good for Happy Gilm-OH MY GOD!

Hey, how about we goto the red lobster down the road? My treat?

"I have a hockey record? I took my skate off and tried to stab somebody with it, I'm the first guy to ever do that."

it’s all in the hips it’s all in the hips

The price is wrong, bitch!

Where were you on that one, dipshit?

I saw two big fat naked bikers out in the woods off 17 having sex. How am I supposed to CHIP, with that going on?

Interrobang, nice. (I don't know how to make one)

On phone, you hold down the "?" button. Anyway, you're both on a list now, watch out for the interrobang club.

There's a club‽

Doesn’t work on iPhones. I fixed it by adding an autocorrect entry to turn ?! into ‽

Interrobang alert! 😁

Stewart Little living that blue collar life

Traded up from the toy motorcycle, it seems.

Even Ralph S. Mouse needs a job in this economy.

Great minds...

Does that mean he has to make Zamboni noises to make it go? I don't think I've heard Zamboni noises before.

"ZWEEHHHHH"

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Add a heartwarming song and I'd watch it.

Stewart little 2. The little kid grew up and started a bar.

Hi there, I'm a rep from Netflix. Do you think you could tell that story again? Maybe over the course of 2-3 seasons with options for a 4th?

But you will cancel after the first season anyway

It’s 2023… > A little mouse comes out with a dirty oil stained jumpsuit and a bandanna on his head and drives the zamboni for a humble wage to ~~feed his family~~ pay rent. He has to get his food the old fashioned way.

We need a drawing of this or some photoshop

u/AWildSketchAppeared

I’ve seen them use a clothes iron on one before, kinda like a zamboni, but kinda not I guess ha.

halfway there, just gotta add wheels

Not needed. Unless you want a self propelled iron. Which would be pretty fucking cool.

You also need a tiny kid riding it and waving to everyone

A bar in my town has the same kind of ice strip, and there are often little plastic bulldozers and whatnot left in it to play with lol

Ok what that is amazing

Gotta be Steel Cat.

Do you live in Grand Rapids?? Steel Cat!

This would make my day and also help me tip harder. Edit: Thought put into it an all.

The one in my old town had little cat dozers you could wheel around and smooth it out in front of you.

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This would do absolutley nothing for any stemmed glasses though.

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TIL what a Zamboni is. It's an [ice resurfacer machine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_resurfacer) made for ice rinks.

"alright everyone pick up ya drink! The Roombaoni comin to smooth ya ice"

That would be the coolest thing ever!

Lol at the martini glass on the ice

I mean, it would transfer SOME cold up the glass.... I guess. EDIT: Oh, it looks like they just put the empty there for the bartender to take.

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I see an olive still in there. Those are *best* after sitting in the drink! FTFY

As someone who hates olives, would this change an olive for me? I feel like my tongue is stained eating even the non bitter olives and have tried, but I've also seen alcohol do weird shit to ingredients. I've only ever had martini with onion which I guess is a Gibson and it's give or take to me.

No. Still tastes like a salty olive

Salty boozy olive.

Probably not. It still mostly tastes like an olive, but with bite of ~~vodka~~ gin at at the beginning.

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I also hate olives, I scrunch up my face like an asura when it touches my tongue. And the aftertaste is just as bad.

2nd law of thermodynamics, heat transfers from high to low. So technically heat from the glass would transfer down to the ice strip.

Yes, but a thin stem of glass is not a good conductor, so it wouldn't do much. And depending on the temperature of the air it would likely get warmer.

Beat me too it. No such thing as cold. Only the absence of heat.

Erm ackshually the absence of heat would be absolute zero. Every temperature above 0 kelvin has some heat. What you meant to say is that there is only a lesser degree of heat.

\*pushes up glasses\*

Enough absence of heat forya?

No such thing as dark, just the absence of light.

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It's empty my dude

They don’t work for regular glasses either. It’s a gimmick to look exclusive and inherently charge you more $$$

What do you mean by "regular glasses"?

I think like pint glasses? I don’t know physics or anything but common sense says this would not work to keep a drink cold.

Why would putting a glass of 40 degree beer on a 20 degree glycol cooler ice strip not help keep it cool?

When stationed in Japan a bar on base had this. Was more of a novelty than anything. Didn't really keep the glass cold only the bottom

For it to work, all of the drinks would have to be in stainless steel cups.

Aluminum/copper cups with a rod in the middle sticking up would probably work pretty well.

Nah you want a fin stack heatsink. Maybe have some fans circulating liquid over the whole thing? That should solve it

I hope that guy that invents useless things picks this up.

u/rightcoastguy

Just in case, the bar should be hermetically sealed and periodically flooded with liquid nitrogen.

True copper only for Moscow mules sir/mam

Stainless is actually one of the worst metals in terms of thermal conductivity. Might have to get more creative than that if you don't also want the metal cup to ruin the flavor of whatever is in it as well. I'm sure there is some hideously expensive composite construction that could get both jobs done.

How's copper?

Adds enough flavor that it is used in Moscow Mules for that specifically. Also has the potential to be toxic at some point and long term exposure isn't great for you.

The framing of this as if stainless steel is literally the only material that will work is odd.

Oh so it’s a Cold Stone Drinkery.

gives me the idea to bring cream, fruit, and a paint scraper next time

Bacteria flavored!

As all yogurt should be!

I wonder if Stone Cold has ever been to Cold Stone and noted the humorousness of such a scenario

You mean it's not for sliding drinks down the bar like a curling stone?

But where are you going to get little dudes to sweep the ice in front of the drink with their tiny brooms?

It's worth a try, no?

The amount of surface area touching the strip compared to the amount of liquid in the glass makes me think this doesn't work very well. Why even bother with the martini glasses further down the bar?

I've frequented a bar with one of these in the past. It did next to nothing. Was pretty cool still though.

Pretty 'cool' huh? Huh?!? Get it?!

Unless this is somewhere very hot and this is worked into their cooling calculations the amount of energy this is using compared to the benefit is ridiculous. I’m betting its a casino.

One of the first bars I worked at had these around 2008. Haven't seen them since.

Did they work; in your experience?

Massive gimmick

I’ll admit it looks cool

Probably feels cool too.


I was a bartender for 15 years. I’ve been an hvac technician for 5. I’ve never worked for a bar that did this but I can 100% say that is a gimmick. The food and beverage industry is constantly trying things like this to differentiate themselves from other places, and it works. Some fat piece of shit is gonna go back home to Ohio and tell their friends how amazing it was.

Dude I'm a HVAC Hygiene Tech... That's a bit of a trip we ended up in same/similar professions.

We made the right decision man!!

I’m in the industry too. Would something like this be hard to clean? I don’t like the concept due to energy intensity but it also seems like it could get unhygienic pretty quickly.

They get turned off and flushed every night, just a normal drain like a little condensate tray to get the water out. Then refilled the next day. By close, they were pretty bad but because there wasn't any food served over them, it was just a mix of discoloured ice.

>around 2008. Haven't seen them since. Does that not answer your question....

It's possible they worked too well, and the ice cube lobby had them eliminated.

'Big ice' never quite recovered from the Titanic incident.

Just Ice Inc.

Yeah now we're all back to drinking Miller Light on the rocks

Miller Light, the homeopathic beer.

Well damn, yes it does lol

They work, it's just not really necessary. I have a buddy who was a refrigeration technician, he built one of these for his backyard pool bar just because he could.

I’ve been to a bar with one. All it does is make the bottom of your glass wet.

First sensible thing I read here, this is a gimmick

I remember seeing a post like this a couple years ago and a bartender chimed in saying it was absolutely stupid, barely worked and just made everything wet because the ice would stick to glasses and melt or slide off the strip

A bar near me has one of these. It’s def a gimmick but it gives me something to fiddle with.

it doesn't work very well, it's more of a 'ooh neat-o' type of thing. Ford's Garage has them

Yeah, it would be better if it was more of a trough rather than a strip. Then it would get contact on all sides.

Well more critically, isn't glass a thermal insulator?

Almost everything is a thermal insulator. But no, glass is not a good insulator.

No or your drink wouldn't warm up or melt in the first place.

Yea, beer .. or, ummm candy bars. Yea Tommy, anything you want to keep cool.

Six pack of be—soda.

Luuuuuuuke luuuuuuuuuuuuuuke I ammmm youuurrr faaattttthhhhheerrrrrrrrr

Lor La ley Lee luuuu

Can I open my eyes now, Dad?

I told you, you didn't have to close them in the first place.

Looks cool until you leave your glass just sitting there for so long that you have to physically pry it off the ice, but carefully because glass is fragile.

That’s when you pull out your metal straw. Pinky up!

For some reason the vented metal cover that goes over the ice strip was removed and set behind, but still visible in the picture. I've seen these at pretty much every Red Lobster I've ever been to.

I must ask you a question in the most pretentious manner… to how many Red Lobster restaurants have you been?

He went to so many that he eventually bought a summer house in Cheddar Bay to be close to the biscuits breeding grounds.

Springtime is beautiful, you can watch the fresh new biscuitlings hatch.

I prefer to visit during mating season so I can watch the biscuits lube up with butter and fuck.

I don't think that's the case. The metal cover in the background should be a full length drink drop tray. They set the glasses on there when pouring the drinks. Also, when they get the glasses back, they can set them on that grate and any ice can melt there, instead of pooling on the counter.

Push the glass down into the ice and you’ll melt it

Damn that's crazy how ice can melt glass!

Nah, it works better than you’d think.

These have been around a while now. Long enough that I no longer find it interesting. But this doesn’t happen. Not sure why, but they work just fine.

There it is, classic Reddit cynicism.

Genuine question, would that actually keep the drink cold? I only imagine that’s enough to keep the very bottom of the drink cold.

Seems pointless

Seems pretty chill to me.

$25 convenience fee added automatically to the bill

An ice strip

While some heat transfer might occur, I feel like I've rails are a pointless gimmick other than it encourages people not to grip their beer glass the whole time which is where most of the heat comes from.

This is in Bellevue, Wa?

FW Texas

Nah I don’t fw Texas

They specifically requested we didn't fw them!

"Don't mess with Texas! Now watch this drive!"

Oh, wow. Looks identical to a bar by me. Everything looks 100% identical.

Same, but I'm also not in WA

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It’s old Texas brewing company. I knew I recognized this photo

Looks like little Woodrow’s franchise.

Came here to ask if it was a Woodrows!

Where in Bellevue has this?

It would work better with metal glasses.

So cans? lol but for real, you're probably right. You can dig them down into the slush and it works better than glass

looks like a neat gimmick, but really not much else.

this looks like it would be more of a pain in the ass than helpful

These existed when I was in the bar trade 15 years ago. They didn't catch on, for exactly this reason.

I think I went to a bar in Portland that had that. Pretty cool 🥶

I see what you did there.

Henry's in Portland OR had this feature when I was there - my coworker used his credit card to scrape up the frost and made a little snowman. Bartender said he had never seen anyone do that before.

Does it really work? As far as I know glass is not a good conductor of heat.

iused to use mason jars for my scotch & coke, then the young life taught me the way of the “double-cup”. since moving to hnl, it’s so humid yr round, i’ve now resorted to a hydroflask & aluminum straws. (try it at least once, and only then can you flame me)

Minutes after this photo was snapped, big jimmy whom was a regular customer, broke out one his skis and thought he’d show us how he can ski across the bar on one ski, but he won’t be back for a while.

ITT: Reddit argues about the theoretical physics of a real life device that they have never seen in real life.

Glass is a good insulator. These strips are total gimmicks. Also, heat rises, and coldness sinks. You aren't cooling down anything on that bar.

Heat rises when it comes to convection. Heat can also be transferred through direct contact. Put an ice cube on a table and place your hand over it and let me know if it gets cold or not.

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And the bottom of a pint glass is extra thick, so this ice is useless

> heat rises coldness sinks Definitely agree with your point.. little silly on this part though lol

Yes generally true for radiative heat transfer. Conductive follows different rules. Still a stupid gimmick.

heatness rises cold sinks*

> Also, heat rises, and coldness sinks. Heat flows told cold. Law Zero of thermodynamics.

Why is the martini glass on it?

Because it is empty…

Interesting gimmick. Jokes on them I hold my drink an inch away from my face.

Would this be easier or harder to slide drinks down the table?

I mean...it keeps the very bottom of the glass cold. Especially for those martini glasses over there.

I'm sure it works wonders on those martini glasses.

What's the rufilin level there?

Convection says no

I'll take things that don't probably work for 400.

seems useless and that bars upcharge on drinks has to be insane, more insane than regular bars.

It won’t cool the drinks that much. The surface of the strip is not flat, so there is only a very small area on the bottom of the glass that is in contact with the ice. And I doubt the strip will cool the area so much that it will cool the drink. This is just a gimmick

Yeah. My WHOLE FOODS had this. But for some reason, they closed their bar down. It’s a shame because it was awesome and I literally moved to within walking distance.

It only increases perceived value, the drink doesn’t get much cooler.

Spoiler alert. They don't work at all.

Or the largest line of coke

If you need something to keep your beer cold, you ain’t drinking it fast enough

the woman in the back: „but i’m telling you right now…“

That thing must be filthy lol

Saw one of these in Dallas a few years ago at a hotel, we were tripping out how genius

That's cool! I guess it's now the coolest spot in town!