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"  Sean Dillon, 30Smithfield, New York City How long have you been at Smithfield? Since we opened in April. But I&amp;#039;ve been bartending in Manhattan for nine years now. Why do people go to the bar? People go to bars for camaraderie. And sometimes people go for just the opposite, just for peace of mind and quiet. Everyone decompresses differently, and you can see it in a bar at night. I mean, I&amp;#039;ve had bars where people come in, and they just read books and have their two beers. And then people come in who want to talk your ear off. It&amp;#039;s a relief. It&amp;#039;s an escape. That&amp;#039;s what bars really are. Why do people go to your bar? People go to our bar particularly because we&amp;#039;re by Penn Station, a very touristy area, and we&amp;#039;re not a touristy place. We really make sure that our staff makes a connection with people. There&amp;#039;s personality. It&amp;#039;s a place where you can remember why you went there and have a good reason to go back. What&amp;#039;s a drink everyone should know how to make? Every bartender should know how to pour a proper Guinness. First, you have to have your line relatively clean, and the beer has to be a proper temperature. You pour it in three steps: stop at the first third, second third, and then you finish it. It should be a nice cream color. There should be no bubbles in the head, and the head should only be a quarter-inch. And that&amp;#039;s the sign of a good bartender. There&amp;#039;s an actual art form to a Guinness, and for a lot of bartenders in New York, that&amp;#039;s a measuring stick. What&amp;#039;s the best drink you&amp;#039;ve ever had? My first good pint of Guinness. It was at Foley&amp;#039;s New York right after I started bartending. It was my 22nd birthday, and I just finished my shift, and the guy poured me a pint. He gave me instructions on how to drink it. You don&amp;#039;t sip it; you gulp it. And you taste it with the back of your palette. The second I figured that out, it tasted delicious. Like dark burnt chocolate. What can you tell about a person by what he or she drinks? The more difficult the drink, the more difficult the person. What&amp;#039;s the last thing you&amp;#039;d drink in a liquor cabinet? Probably rum. It&amp;#039;s too much sugar. I have one rum drink, and I feel like I&amp;#039;m hungover before I even have a buzz. Speaking of hangovers, what&amp;#039;s your hangover cure? I usually get a Subway sandwich with as many vegetables as possible on the way home, and I put it in the fridge. That, and half a cup of Pedialyte. What do you have to keep behind the bar with you at all times? I have a bottle-opener ring I&amp;#039;ve been using for about six years now. And I always keep a full bottle-opener in my back pocket. What&amp;#039;s the most ridiculous thing you&amp;#039;ve witnessed a customer do? I mean, I don&amp;#039;t know where to start. I&amp;#039;ve witnessed people pull out their genitalia. I&amp;#039;ve seen girlfriends punch boyfriends in the face. I&amp;#039;ve seen guys pee. I&amp;#039;ve seen people sleep. I&amp;#039;ve seen people get sick on themselves while sleeping. I&amp;#039;ve witnessed relationships actually break up at the bar. I witnessed robberies that I broke up. Pretty much anything and everything. So do you go home happy from the bar? The key in a bar is to forget about the rude people and just remember the nice people. I go for a walk every night after work, or I just sit and watch TV for a little bit, just to decompress. I&amp;#039;m generally happy with work. I just block out the jerks. It makes it a lot easier. How would you describe Giants fans? As a Jets fan, I&amp;#039;m kind of jealous of Giants fans, &amp;#039;cause there&amp;#039;s less media hype, but they just seem to win more. There tends to be a decent mix of male and female Giants fans, which is nice, and everyone just kind of drinks beer. But there&amp;#039;s not one direct Giants drink. Are they a rambunctious bunch? Throughout the years, the only times I&amp;#039;ve had issues is Cowboy-Giants, or Giants-Redskins games. But for the most part, I think a lot of people don&amp;#039;t realize, especially in New York, that at least 40 percent if not half of the football crowd is women. I think maybe they&amp;#039;ve realized that men are drinking on Sunday, so they might as well be doing it, too. Or it could be a lot of fathers who wish they had boys, for all we know. What do you think about Tebow? I think Tebow is like communism. In theory, communism makes total sense, but you know it&amp;#039;s not gonna work out in the end. 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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