I started bartending 12 years ago at Café Banquette. I was 18 and  started as a shot girl. That was the heyday, packed with people wall to wall and they would have lines wrapping around the building down to St. Charles [Avenue]. Those were intense shifts. That’s where I found my speed. You have to move, or you’re screwed.

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