Posts Tagged ‘the-restaurant’

The Trickle Effect

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

During these struggling times of a suffering economy, the beginning trickling effects of the past are becoming more and more noticeable. With unemployment rates rising daily and businesses suffering more and more from decrease in sales and profit, the economy is doing the best to keep afloat

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Bartending – What it’s Really Like

Monday, August 31st, 2009

cocktail Media portrayal is not always what it seems when it comes to the viewers idea of what a certain job entails.  Movies and television can sometimes make a night club career or job look exciting and alluring when it is in fact tiring and stressful.  The viewers, whether it be by choice or ignorance, only see the glamorous side of many stories. A good example of this false portrayal by the media is bartending .  Bartending is just a small part of a big picture in the restaurant bus

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Ben Sandrof

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Bartender profile By the time I first encountered Ben Sandrof, a few years ago when he was working at the Charles Hotel’s chichi lounge, Noir, he had already done time at a few other high-end restaurants around Harvard Square, most notably Upstairs on the Square. His first bartending job, however, was in a Monterey, California, pub called the Britannia Arms.

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Double Digit Unemployment

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Florida’s unemployment rate is now in the double digits at 10.2 percent. The last time the state’s jobless rate was higher was 1975

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