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" Carlos Mendez, 35 La Descarga  Los Angeles, California You work at a place with a dress code. What&amp;#039;s the funniest thing that ever happened to you at the bar? I was just sweeping off a glass that had broken at the back, and some girl grabbed my butt! I turn around and look, and she&amp;#039;s just smiling at me. She gets up and gives me a hug and goes, &amp;quot;I will never wash my hands.&amp;quot; Sounds like she got away with it. What was the most ridiculous thing you&amp;#039;ve seen a customer do? Try to take a shot while doing a headstand. It didn&amp;#039;t go down very well, obviously.  Did he choke? No, he just fell.  What customer habit annoys you most at the bar? We get a pretty good crowd, but the only thing that annoys me is if I ask somebody, Do you want to open the tab or just cash? and they don&amp;#039;t right away try to pay or open the tab. They&amp;#039;ll always be like, Yeah just hold on. The one thing that I do when I go to a bar is first, pull out my credit card, and get my tab, and I&amp;#039;m ready to go. How did you end up bartending? The owners walked into Home Depot were I was working and started asking me about colors and paints because they&amp;#039;re color-blind. They said they were opening up a Cuban bar. I said, &amp;quot;Oh a Cuban Bar, that&amp;#039;s funny. I&amp;#039;m Cuban, and there aren&amp;#039;t many Cubans out here in L.A.&amp;quot; We got along, and they asked me to come down to the bar and take a look. After a couple of visits, they asked if I would be interested in working there. I&amp;#039;d never bartended or bar-backed or anything, even though my mom has been bartending in Miami for the past 30 years. It&amp;#039;s been three years now. Whats the most underrated drink? I would say a Dark and Stormy. Maybe because it&amp;#039;s so simple. It&amp;#039;s a really fantastic refreshing drink, but not done well in many places. [Here&amp;#039;s a proper method \u2014Ed.] Why do people come to La Descarga? Because it&amp;#039;s different. It&amp;#039;s a Cuban bar. It&amp;#039;s Hispanic. It&amp;#039;s Latino. It&amp;#039;s got live Spanish music and dancing. In Hollywood or in L.A. you can go to any bar, and they&amp;#039;ll always have English music and some DJ. But La Descarga&amp;#039;s got good Spanish music so people are just turned on by the fact that it&amp;#039;s just different and refreshing. What do bartenders know about drinking that the rest of us don&amp;#039;t? My dad always told me you have to drink the drink and not let the drink drink you. PLUS: Read More Bartender Questions on Eat Like a Man &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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