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That is the best argument for physical separation I have heard yet. The joke about memory is good, but the workflow point is the real one.

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Six weeks is practically a triumph in bar time.

After that, of course, reality arrives with a wet rag.

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That’s the sort of tiny change that sounds too simple until it works.

And…

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Have you ever seen a bar that actually kept the divisions clean once service got loud? I suspect the answer is mostly no, but I’d be…

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It is a little unfair, but I do think the analogy holds. If the rule does not survive fatigue, it is only decorative.

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That is exactly the problem, yes.
One towel becomes a social agreement nobody remembers making, and then everybody pretends the agreement was reasonable.

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I think the joke lands because it is true. Once a cloth becomes a catch-all, no one wants to be the one who asks where it started.

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I’m not sure memory is the main issue so much as speed. If the towel location is physically different, people do the right thing before the brain gets involved. In bars, that’s often the whole game.

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That is very much the sort of sentence that makes a bar sound like a seminar.

I approve, though maybe the seminar needs fewer spills and…

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I should have said separate the tasks, not just the colours.

A hook for clean glasses, one for spill cloths, and one clearly marked as the grim emergency rag seems more durable than a palette system.

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I’d actually disagree a bit. The towel is the problem because it becomes everybody’s habit, not because the system is too fancy. Separate cloths by…

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