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Next Wave Awards Industry Icon of the Year: Clover Club

VinePair

It’s been just over 16 years since Julie Reiner and her wife and business partner Susan Fedroff opened their award-winning bar Clover Club in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The trio immediately clicked, reinvigorating and reassuring the continued legacy of Clover Club by embracing and leaning into each of their own unique skill sets.

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Tinnitus Sucks and Should Be Avoided At All Costs

BarLifeUK

The Listen For Life page on the NTIA website has some good information about dangerous sound levels and such, but in a nutshell, if you leave your place of work and your ears are ringing, feel congested, or your hearing seems muffled, you are already experiencing sound levels that could damage your ears.

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The Treacherous, Untold Toll Bartending Takes on the Body

VinePair

When he moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to run Caña, a high-volume rum bar, the pain became unmanageable. Injuries to the shoulders and elbows from the repetitive stress of shaking and stirring cocktails are most common among bartenders in high-volume restaurants and bars. and elected to undergo surgery on both hands.

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We Asked 10 Bartenders: What’s the Hardest Cocktail to Master?

VinePair

—Stephen Walkiewicz, bartender, Le Veau d’Or , NYC “Hands down, anything stirred and served straight up is the most difficult cocktail to master on a commercial scale in a somewhat high-volume cocktail bar, if you’re actually making your drinks à la minute with no shortcuts. But it’s so worth it when you nail it, and you will!”

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Call for More Cheer for Beer

Spiritz

Beer is, in fact, much closer to the soft drinks – both are low-value, high-volume products, carbonated, need chillers and cold supply chain, are sold in cans and bottles of similar sizes, consumed without additives, and share a younger demographic user base. It is not clubbed with spirits in most part of the world.

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The Most Egregious Scams Pulled by Bartenders, According to Reddit

VinePair

I was completely oblivious to it until after the fact but did notice one shift that we raked in a lot of cash with “Bill” on the bar but attributed it to it being a high volume club night where ballers tended to throw extra cash around and some form of old school bartender charm on his end.

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How Jackson Cannon Helped Build (and Rebuild) Boston’s Cocktail Culture

Imbibe Magazine

For a long while, it looked like Eastern Standard—the stylish and influential high-volume bar and restaurant near Fenway Park that opened in 2005—might also be among those casualties. This, in turn, led to a public version of the gig at Boston.com, called the “ Boston.com Cocktail Club.