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Bartender Career: Salary, Tips and Life Behind the Bar
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That big mirror behind the bar is not there for vanity, it is there because a bartender’s back is turned at the exact moments something can go wrong. We sit down with Tom Ostoyich, a career bartender who has worked since the late 1990s across New York City, New Orleans, and the Hudson Valley, to pull back the curtain on what bartending actually demands and what it can realistically pay. Then we go to the parts that rarely make it into the glamorous version of nightlife: handling drunk or host...