bartender

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Instead of texting the bartender, as you might have done 20 years ago, you’re expected to plan ahead enough to book a two-top on Resy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Once the bartender spots me, she starts preparing a margarita — with lots of love, as she likes to describe it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Nguyen Van Giảng, a bartender at the historic Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel, is said to have invented the drink during a midcentury milk shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Andrew Hall, 24, works as a bartender and waiter at a restaurant in Guildford, Surrey, and says he struggles to make ends meet each month.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

She pried herself loose from the bar before the bartender could stop her and came over to Ignatius, who was huddled against the stage as if it were a warm stove.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole