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The Treacherous, Untold Toll Bartending Takes on the Body

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When he moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to run Caña, a high-volume rum bar, the pain became unmanageable. Constant Hits Cause Problems In 2013, Freddie Sarkis took a six-month leave of absence from his bartending job. Six months after moving west, Katz consulted with specialists at Cedar Sinai hospital in L.A.

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At Modern Cocktail Bars, It’s Every Drink, Everywhere, All at Once. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

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It specialized in agave spirits and drinks, or rum. And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight. You need an element that is high-volume. It was a classic cocktail bar, or a neo-speakeasy. They are not making that much money.

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