Title: Bar manager, Myth
Home town: Anaheim, CA
1. What makes someone good at working the bar?
You have to be a people person. You have to be able to listen. You have to be something of a chameleon and an actor. You never know what's going to come up or what people will want to talk about. I came to San Francisco on a theater scholarship at San Francisco State. But I've always bar-tended nights. Everyday is a character study.
People who come to the bar are looking for interaction and I really like that part of it. I pretty much always want to keep one night a week working the bar for as long as I can possibly stand up. It's good stories, good interaction you just get to meet so many people.
Experimenting is important. To be able to recreate a memory, something sensory.
2. How did you learn to work the bar?
I used to be a cocktail server. An old school bar man took me under his wing and taught me all the classics. When I turned 21 I could get behind the bar legally and I fell into it naturally.