![]() No matter what industry you’re going into, working in hospitality is kind of a training that everyone should have to go through.Īs the head of BCB’s Education Committee how do you ensure diverse perspectives? How you deal with people, how you problem solve is different. Whenever people say that they spent any time in hospitality, you just see that they have an incredible skill set the thought process is different. From the guests’ perspective, there are a lot of people who think that bartending is about making drinks, when bartending is about so many other things all at once, like teamwork and organization and knowledge and hospitality and running a business, to a certain degree. It also helps bartenders feel more professional about their industry. And then in addition to the marketplace, not only is there the BCB educational programming, but there’s content that’s brought in by brands, who bring in some of their top guns to do awesome education. For those two days it’s really like this giant marketplace for people in hospitality to walk around and see the breadth of what’s available to them. I loved seeing that last year’s BCB really drew a lot of bartenders from all over the U.S., because we haven’t really had a trade show like this. ![]() What I love about the program at BCB is that it simplifies the process of sharing. Why is BCB such an important resource for the bartending community?Ī lot of bartenders and a lot of people in the industry have ideas, and maybe don’t necessarily have platforms to share and discuss them. And then through things like Speed Rack, I’ve seen how the sharing of information and the passing along of education and opportunity to each other is still so important. I always attribute my success and luck in this industry to starting in New York, and having access to people like Dale DeGroff, Audrey Saunders, Dave Wondrich, and Julie Reiner. How did becoming an advocate for education and mentorship in the bar industry grow out of your own career as a bartender?Īccess to education and to mentors has always been so important to me. ![]() Since founding Speed Rack over a decade ago, Lynnette Marrero has continued to lend her time and expertise to projects that have a deep, personal meaning, including a series of mixology lessons for online learning platform MasterClass, a partnership with fellow Nuyorican Jennifer Lopez to launch Delola, a line of low-ABV, ready-to-drink spritzes, and serving as industry conference Bar Convent Brooklyn’s Head of Education.Īhead of this year’s Bar Convent Brooklyn (BCB) we caught up with Marrero to talk about the importance of education and mentorship, and how she has continually striven to contribute to projects that honor those themes. ![]()
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