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We Asked 11 Bartenders: What’s Your Most Controversial Cocktail Take?

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I’ve seen coworkers with true reverence cite service as the sole driver behind their craft and then roll their eyes in a guest’s face for ordering a ‘Tito’s and vodka’ [instead of ‘Tito’s and soda’]. Through this performance, it’s extremely easy to lose oneself in a high-level competitive environment.

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Walk-On’s Shoots to Score With Menu Revamp

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It features Wheatley vodka, Owens Espresso Martini mix, Mr. Black liqueur, Evangelines praline liqueur and a cinnamon and sugar floater. Better wines and brews Not surprisingly, Hagen says that beer and cocktails drive alcohol sales at Walk-Ons, comprising more than 80% of the beverage sales. Drink prices range from $12 to $14.

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The Most Egregious Scams Pulled by Bartenders, According to Reddit

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User Twice_Knightley commented: “The best one I’ve ever seen was a server who would work 5 nights per week, she would ring in, and pay for 100 vodka crans and rum and cokes on a night where they were $2, keep the tickets, and get them made on the weekends when they were $7. Easy-peasy.

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Employees Only Turns 20: An Oral History of the Iconic NYC Speakeasy

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Excellent craft drinks, yes, but ones that were free-poured, doled out with haste, and in high volume. And so when I had summer break from college I would go to Greece and spend the whole summer “bartending,” which was opening beers and pouring some cheap tequila shots. I didn’t want to take part in any of that.

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Gen Z and spirits: a golden opportunity?

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The data analytics group found Gen Z tends to be “underrepresented in traditional, high-volume categories” like beer but are “more likely to be over-represented in spirit-based RTDs, cocktails, liqueurs, and aperitifs”. Vodka meanwhile is holding steady, he adds. “It’s It’s kind of a bit timeless.

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How Flavored Whiskey Became a Major Part of Modern Drinks Culture

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A Category Leader Outranked only by bestselling Tito’s Vodka , the cinnamon-flavored Canadian whisky’s silver medal in overall spirits sales counts as a coup, especially considering that the Fireball brand only dates to 2007, after the Sazerac Company bought it, renamed it and launched it nationally. Crown Royal whiskey is down.

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10 Unexpected Cities to Visit This Year for Top-Tier Cocktails

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Bangkok Credit: Mahaniyom Cocktail Bar on Facebook Back in the day and were talking a decade and a half ago first-timers to Bangkok drank buckets of Chang beer and had their teeth rotted by SangSom rum, and considered themselves lucky! Suffice it to say that, things have changed in Thailand’s capital.

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