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Hercules Montero
I was not the prettiest bartender at the Coyote Ugly Saloon. In my opinion, that would have been Caroline. I was partial to Caroline, though, because she had been so nice to me when I began working here. She was very pretty and also very funny. When I asked Caroline how she'd gotten her first bartender job, she cupped her breasts and said simply, "These." (On first glance, however, Caroline's breasts didn't seem exceptional, and I said as much. She unzipped her bulky sweatshirt and showed them to me. Then I said, "Oh.")
Still, some regulars would have insisted that the prettiest bartender at the Coyote Ugly Saloon was Chris, who had sassy short hair like a boy's and a heart-stopping midriff. Of course, there was also Jackie to consider. Jackie was very pretty. Jackie was also famous for tossing shots of rum into her mouth, holding a lighter to her lips and blowing ten-foot bursts of flame across the room. There was definitely a cult of Jackie. Molly was pretty in a way that attracted the downtown crowd, and Dawn was pretty in the way that bikers like. And as for Jessie? Jessie was practically an objet d'art. Jessie was so goddamn pretty that it barely counted. One of the many regulars who fell in love with Jessie dated her a few times. She broke it off quickly. But he would still come into the Coyote Ugly Saloon every night, just to talk about her.
I gave a lot of good counsel at the Coyote Ugly Saloon. I certainly gave a lot of advice to men who'd fallen in love with their bartenders. It was a perennial problem. It was, after all, pretty much the whole point of the place.
Lil is short, cute and tough. She has the body of a figure skater and the voice of a lifetime smoker. Lil is a legend in the neighborhood. She got her training across the street, at a bar called the Village Idiot, a dive that made the Coyote Ugly Saloon look like the Russian Tea Room. The Village Idiot was owned by this guy named Tom, who used to drink terrific amounts of Guinness and this piss behind his own jukebox. There were potholes in the floor of his bar deep enough to trip a horse. There was no drainage system, so the bartenders had to wade through shin-deep beer by the end of the night. When things started pressing in on them and the bartenders wanted to keep patrons back, they'd pour rum down the length of the bar and set it on fire. Tom hired only women bartenders at the Village Idiot. When Tom needed new help, he would put a sign outside reading, SHAMELESS SLUTS WANTED: NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.
Lil hired and fired many bartenders in her constant search for the perfect Coyote Ugly Saloon staff. Of course, she hired only women. Since most bar patrons were men, this was a great gimmick. I'll never understand why it's not a more common practice.
There were bartenders who seemed to get fired because they were too fragile or too shy or too polite, of all things. (Early in my own Coyote Ugly Saloon career, I made the mistake of saying to a customer, "Here's your beer, sir." Lil overheard and shouted, "Don't even call anyone in this place 'sir'!" So I said, "I'm terribly sorry. I meant to say, 'Here's your beer, douche bag.'" Lil and the customer laughed. And I though, Oh, I get it, but I am a very quick study.) Some bartenders were gorgeous but not sexy, so what's the point? Some bartenders laughed a lot but were not funny themselves, so that didn't work, either.
But I was never really sure how long I could stay in. As a Coyote Ugly Saloon bartender, I was to lure people into that place, keep them there as long as I could and make damn sure they came back the next week. Our jobs depended upon this, and Lil never let her bartenders forget that.
No excuses were accepted. It didn't matter if it was a Sunday night or the weather was miserable or the New York Giants were in the Super Bowl. The bartender was responsible for bringing customers in. Period. Lil could do it. Lil could get crowds in that bar, and they'd never leave. If they started thinking about leaving, she would start feeding them free shots. She would press them to put their favorite songs on the jukebox. She would mercilessly tease them in front of their friends for being wimps. Whatever it took. Lil was expert at making patrons realize that while they may have needed to leave the bar, they didn't actually want to. People who thought they were on their way out found themselves, instead, suddenly buying a round for the whole bar.
Lil could pack that place during a Christmas-night blizzard and she believed that any decent Coyote Ugly bartender should be able to do the same. That was only fair. She could also out-drink every single customer in the crowd. She believed any decent Coyote Ugly bartender should be able to do that too.
There was a man who used to come into the bar and regularly hassle me. He liked to say that I was too good for the place and managed to make this statement seem incredibly insulting. He had fun trying to guess what I really wanted to be in life or what career I had failed at so miserably that I was "only" a bartender. His name was Johnny.
There was a time, when I was a novice Coyote Ugly Saloon bartender, when I measured a good night by the number of marriage proposals I had received. I had a particularly determined regular who would ask me to marry him literally every time I walked past. For hours on end, we'd have this same conversation.
It is a great thing to be a much loved bartender. It is a great thing to be a celebrity, even within a community of bors. I found all that drunken love to be completely narcotic. A British friend came to New York to visit, and he watched me tend bar for hours. He said, "They all adore you. And they're all so miserable and pathetic. You, my dear, are the Queen of the Gutter!"
Every bar is a monument to talk, which is why very lonely people and very gregarious people need bars. As a bar customer, you can engage in only two conversations, one to your left and one to your right. But as a bartender, I could engage in fourteen conversations at once. I wasn't the prettiest bartender at the Coyote Ugly Saloon, but I was damn sure the best talker. I could bandy with any man and banter with his brother. I was completely awake during that year, especially during the long night shifts. I wasn't the belle of the ball; I was the bouncing ball. You all looked to me.
But I married him anyway. An easy choice, because he was the nicest one. People think it's an odd way to meet a husband and an odd way to be proposed to, but it makes perfect sense to me. I have always loved a good bar. I come from a gamily of good drinkers. There was one year when my dad was making his own beer, my sister was writing a 300-page doctoral dissertation about women's drinking during Prohibition, my mother was counseling teenage alcoholics and I was bartending. As a family, we orbited the universe of inebriation. Back when I was 7 years old, my grandfather sat me and my sister on his knee and told us, wisely, "Whenever you're in a strange bar and you don't know the bartender, always order a martini. It's pure alcohol, so he can't stuff you on the booze."
When I was 8 years old, that same grandfather took me on a tour of the Matt brewery in Utica, New York. At the end of the tour, the guides led us into a dark turn-of-the-century tavern. The adults each got a free sample of Matt draft beer. I was hoisted up onto a barstool. The bartender slid me over a frosty root beer in a frozen mug, along with a basket of pretzels. The sweet-and-salt taste of that combination was extraordinary. The tavern was carved from dark woods and decorated with a great, smoky mirror. Decadent red velvet drapes kept the sun out. My fingers left prints in the frost on my glass. The low laughter of that tavern is still the most adult sound I can remember.
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This course prepares students to handle the challenges of managing beverage operations in a hospitality environment, including duties and responsibilities of bartenders and beverage servers, essentials of responsible alcohol service, and product knowledge of beer, spirits, and wines.
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Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. The owner of the hotel is New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass?" Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.
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