{"id":29361,"date":"2013-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/29361\/beirut-bartender-series-walid-at-bedivere"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:13:07","slug":"beirut-bartender-series-walid-at-bedivere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/29361\/beirut-bartender-series-walid-at-bedivere\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut Bartender Series: Walid at Bedivere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/29361.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <b>The Bar:<\/b> <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/19590\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Bedivere<\/a>, Jean D\u2019Arc Street, Hamra<\/i><br \/>  <b>The Bartender: <\/b> <i>Walid, 30<\/i><\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is your favorite part about being a bartender?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: It progresses fast. There are always new things to try; different ingredients you can mix to come up with a new drink, new bottles and different types of alcohol. Also, most of the time, you get to see the positive side of people. They come to you on their time off to have a good time. They\u2019re in a good mood, looking to have fun, and maintaining that good mood on your part is very easy. <\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is your least favorite part of the job?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: The timing. It\u2019s like you\u2019re walking on your hands. You work when everyone has time off and when you have free time, everyone else is working. The only way you see your friends most of the time is if they come to you, especially on holidays, which, for us, are the busiest. In addition, family life definitely suffers and maintaining a relationship is pretty difficult. <\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is the most annoying thing a customer does?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: The touching and screaming they do to get your attention. There\u2019s a certain type of customer who cannot be avoided no matter what bar you\u2019re at. They not only invade your privacy, but the privacy of everyone else around them, whether it be staff members or customers. They are detrimental to everyone around them. <\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is the best thing a customer does?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: Loyalty. There are some customers with whom you form and maintain a relationship with, and who end up following you around from bar to bar, depending on where you\u2019re working at the time. It is the sincerest form of flattery. <\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is the funniest thing that has happened to you while bartending at Bedivere?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: This one time, I was able to convince a customer that my colleague working the bar with me that night was mentally challenged, and that we were working with a charity to reintroduce him to social interaction. It was hilarious. She spent the entire night replying to everything he said with a huge smile and phrases like \u201cWOW! That\u2019s amazing!\u201d \u201cGreat job! You\u2019re doing great!\u201d while he spent the entire night in confused oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Beirut.com<\/b><\/i>: What is your signature drink?<\/p>\n<p>  <b><i>Walid<\/b><\/i>: I don\u2019t have a signature drink. They\u2019re all like my babies, and I don\u2019t play favorites. However, this week, it\u2019s the Colonel Martin.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>Colonel Martin<\/b><br \/>  2cl lemon juice<br \/>  6cl homemade pepper infused vodka<br \/>  \u00bd piece fresh guava<br \/>  5 basil springs<br \/>  \u00bd piece fresh mandarin <br \/>  Garnish with a lemon peel and mint leaves    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar: Bedivere, Jean D\u2019Arc Street, Hamra<br \/>\nThe Bartender:  Walid, 30<\/p>\n<p>Beirut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-29361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crave"],"authorship":[171],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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