Jeff Burkhart

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One can get an immediate sense of a bar within the first 30 seconds of meeting the bartender. And this bartender worked like a well-oiled machine.

Becoming a Regular: Don’t Judge a Bar by its Cover

I pulled up and parked along what passed for a curb. Really it was just a pile of asphalt, which certainly didn’t give it...
Bartender Jeff Burkhart was scolded harshly his first day on the job.

By Example, Learning from the Best 

It was my first day as a bartender, and in my mind I had arrived. There is a joke, “What’s the difference between God...
One of the great things about being a bartender is that bartenders are non-threatening, meaning that we are expected to engage with everybody.

Ring Thing, Seeing What We Want

As Charles Bukowski wrote in his novel Barfly, “It’s not that I don’t like people. I just feel better when they’re not around.” But Bukowski...
They say that birds of a feather flock together. And while that most likely is true, in the bar business, friends order together and good friends often order the exact same thing.

Hemingway Blues: Choose Role Models Carefully

Humorist Will Rogers once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” What’s noticeably absent from that sentiment is how he felt about...
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