Name: Jenny Miller
Bar: Cumberland Brews
How long have you been bartending?: About a year and a half.
What's your favorite drink to pour?: Well, seeing as we only serve beer and wine, I would have to say beer!
What's the worst thing you've overheard at the bar?: Wow ... probably intimate details of people's sex lives. People fighting -- (a colleague interjects: "A girl on a date with a girl, talking about a date she went on with another girl. Remember that?") Yeah! ("She was telling all these graphic details about the other girl - while she was on a date.") Yeah, sometimes you hear people talk about their sex life, or how they were last night. ... It's not something you try to remember, y'know?
Is there a song you hate the most on the jukebox or radio here?: We listen to WFPK here, so they play a lot of Sheryl Crow. I wish we had a jukebox, so it could be a little bit different, 'cause what they play's kinda the same, kind of montone, y'know?
What's the secret to having a bartender like you?: I think you have to be open-minded and be able to be tolerant. If you don't have any patience whatsoever, then you shouldn't be a bartender. People are going to annoy you anyway, regardless, but you have to have patience with people. Just be tolerant of drunken behavior (laughs), so you don't make yourself crazy.
What's the quickest way to make a bartender hate you?: I don't like it when people put their glass on their head when they want another beer. Or snap their fingers. Just, when they don't show you the respect that you're a person of worth because you're serving them -- like, you're their servant or something. That's the biggest thing. It's surprising how much people don't respect their bartender or their server, y'know? It continues to shock me. But at Cumberland, we have a lot of really awesome regulars, people who treat us well. I'm pretty lucky.
Every gone home with a customer?: Yeah. Sure! I mean, my boyfriend's a customer.
Did you meet him here?: I did, yeah!
