Listen here or on Apple Podcasts
(Don’t forget to subscribe while you’re there)
What is a bar for? How about a bartender? And now, in the interstitial space between what was and what will be, how can a person be a bartender when we can’t have people in our bars?
This episode does a few things: it gives a direct insight into our specific training style, we speculate on how to make a bar experience virtual, all of which culminates in two talented bartenders performing a classic comedy sketch. Some of the questions and topics include:
– What is the importance of creativity & individual expression in bars?
– The history of Sandwich Sunday and how giving away food makes cocktails better
– The ins and outs of our unorthodox training program (“The Free-Pouring version of training…”)
– Why bars run by humans are better than bars that aren’t
– What can we do that can fill the void in people’s lives
– How we will change and bars will change
– Bars as process and bars as story
– How to make a bartender
– How ours is the hardest training program on the planet
– “The attention is as important as the recipe”
– The vitality of doubt and the power of being weird
– What can bartenders do when they can’t bartend?
– Why not just sit at home until all this blows over?
– Finally, Adam & Stacy perform a classic comedy sketch. And they nail it…
Weirdo Banjo Track: Bald-Headed End of the Broom
