The same day I served Wanda Sykes and a gentleman and their tab was $100 or something, and they tipped $100.
#AOC BARTENDER OR BARISTA FOR FREE#
And everybody was like, ‘Donald Trump’s here!’ We all thought, ‘We’re gonna make a lot of money!’ So we were all waiting on him and being super nice and he got everything for free and he was pretty snappy about things. He came in with his then-new girlfriend, Melania. Jae Love (cocktail waitress, 2001 to 2005): “I served Donald Trump. Every ethnic group, cultural heritage and orientation was represented.” On the Celebrities: Robert West (b artender, 1994 to 1996): “What I remember was Carolyn’s commitment to diversity. She hired you because she thought you had something, not because she thought you were going to be the next big model.” Carolyn chose people for their personality. Renee Rein (general manager, 1999 to 2015): “Coffee Shop gets this bad reputation of only hiring pretty people that are models and actors, but that’s not true. The way that she trained me was: ‘Here, go ahead, go take a table.’ She kind of let me do my own thing.” She still hired me.”īyata Dikker (server, 2000 to 2004): “My first night working there Laverne Cox trained me. I’m pretty sure Carolyn could tell that I was lying to her and that I hadn’t been a server. On the Hiring and Training Process:Ĭolleen Longo (server, 2002 to 2003): “I remember going there and the hostess told me to come back to meet Carolyn and to dress sexy. Included below are memories from Renee Rein, Coffee Shop’s former general manager for over a decade Byata Dikker, a former late-night server who now works as a casting director and musician Sara Harper, a former server, hostess and bartender who is now a nursing student musician, DJ and model Alix Brown who worked as a server and maître d’ Colleen Longo, a former server turned jewelry designer Robert West, a former Coffee Shop bartender who now works for the state government photographer Jae Love, who worked as a cocktail waitress Rael Petit, who worked as a bartender before moving on to his current position as the beverage director at the Williamsburg Hotel Daniel Newman, a server and bartender for four years who is best-known for his role on “The Walking Dead” Magdalena Kelly, a former bartender and server for six years who now works for a First Nations/indigenous non-profit in Canada and the actor and long-time customer Alan Cumming. True to its fashionable reputation, the restaurant itself even made a cameo as a location in the film adaptation of “The Devil Wears Prada”, and, of course, “Sex and the City.”īefore it closes its doors for good, over a dozen former employees and customers to share their memories to better show what made Coffee Shop such a unique place in the city’s nightlife landscape.
And, until shortly before the recent New York Democratic primary upset that would make her a household name, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-“Sandy”-was a server.
“Nashville” star Chaley Rose worked as a server alongside “America’s Next Top Model” winner Naima Mora and her twin sister, Nia. Boyd Holbrook of “Narcos” and Daniel Newman of “The Walking Dead” tended bar together. Laverne Cox worked the late shift and was remembered by her coworkers for singing and vogueing between the tables. In its heyday, during New York’s post-9/11 renaissance, Maya Rudolph and R&B singer Maxwell worked there.
For some, a job at Coffee Shop was a source of pride, money and, possibly, fame. Along with its celebrity-friendly VIP seating policy, Coffee Shop will be best remembered for its front-of-house staff-mostly made up of really beautiful people. When it closes this month, it probably won’t be remembered most for its Brazilian-inspired food, or even for helping to popularize the Mojito and Caipirinha in New York. Hemmed in by NYU dorms, Starbucks and a McDonalds, Coffee Shop, the restaurant and bar at 29 Union Square West opened by three models in 1990, always felt like it belonged to a different era.
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