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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. 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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Do Upscale Dives Belong in the Modern Bar Landscape?

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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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Mana for a Cause: Teremana Tequila Is Giving Back During the Holidays With Ezana ‘EZ’ Million

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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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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. 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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The Most Egregious Scams Pulled by Bartenders, According to Reddit

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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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