VinePair

APRIL 2, 2024

When he moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to run Caña, a high-volume rum bar, the pain became unmanageable. Six months after moving west, Katz consulted with specialists at Cedar Sinai hospital in L.A. At one point, the carpal tunnel was so bad that he couldn’t even turn the key to lock up the bar at the end of the night.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

It specialized in agave spirits and drinks, or rum. Harrison is the founder of Rachel Harrison Communications, a publicity firm that is prominent in the food, drink, and hospitality world. And also people are realizing that at those high-end cocktail bars, those cocktails are very, very expensive and the margins are very tight.

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VinePair

MARCH 19, 2024

You’ll see an $11 Adios M *r on the menu painted on the wall next to its room-length bar, touting ingredients like overproof rum and navy-strength gin. After the pandemic, all manner of pretentious drinking has taken a back seat to drinking what you want,” says beverage and hospitality expert Mia Mastroianni. Where Did This Come From?

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VinePair

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Teremana Tequila is serving holiday cheer by the bottle while giving back to the hospitality community that shines so brilliantly, now and year-round. Between Irish pubs and high-volume cocktail bars, Million honed his flavors as a barback, squeezing his own custom juices and lemonades, earning him the moniker “The Lemonade Man.”

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VinePair

JULY 17, 2024

The Double Drop Allegedly a fairly common scam in the hospitality industry, this strategy involves a server or bartender reprinting checks from early in the shift to give to current tables when they’re ready to pay. The server walked away with an extra $500 per week before they were found out.

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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Lafayette Hotel Hospitality group CH Projects has transformed this historic North Park hotel into the cocktail enthusiast’s dream barhop. Indulge in a banana coconut milkshake with rhum agricole and Benedictine at the 24-hour Beginner’s Diner or end the night with a tequila and aged rum Espresso Martini at supper club Lou Lou’s Jungle Room.

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