Today’s #SurpriseGuest is Eddie Rudzinskas who shares his hospitality secrets with us.

Eddie is the Founder and the Owner of Cocktails_For_You platform.

Being very passionate about cocktails, he started a personal blog on facebook 9 years ago. He wanted a place where he can share his two big passions: cocktails and photography. Slowly this small passions transformed into his full time work.

Eddie started working in the Hospitality Industry at the age of 17. He worked in all types of bars and restaurants on all positions.

Born in Lithuania, 14 years ago he moved to Ireland where he joined the local Bartender Association and from that moment on he started to participate in many national and international Cocktail Competitions following his love for cocktails.

Slowly he cultivated also his passion for photography, he learned the secrets of that craft and around 2 years ago, e quit his job and dedicated 100% to Cocktails_For_You. His passion transformed in his Job.

If you want to hear more of Eddie’s secrets, put your headphones, get comfortable and enjoy this #HospitalitySecrets episode.

Cheers!🥂

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Today’s Surprise Guest is Viteszlav Cirok who shares his hospitality secrets with us.

I met Vita in the year that I was competing to World Class in 2015, he was representing Czech Republic and he managed to be in the top 6 bartenders in that year in the World Class Global Competition.

Born in a small city, 400 km from Prague he moves to capital and start working in Hospitality Industry. Soon he felt in love with the craft and dedicates all his time and energy in becoming better and better. Slowly he became a bartending legend in Czech.

In the present, together with his team he is running his own Bar Consulting company - Apollo. They are doing also Pre-Batch Cocktails (http://apollodrinks.cz/) and work on their own batched product. Inspired by Apollo program, they think about opening Space (a Lab for their products and a space to teach the new generation of bartenders).

Find out more #Secrets by listening to the whole episode. 🎙

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Cheers! 🥂

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Today’s special Guest is Danil Nevsky who shares his hospitality secrets with us.

‼️ This is a longer episode. Danil had a lot of value to share so we decided to go a bit longer than usual.

Danil began his journey in Hospitality at the age of 15 in Scotland where he started working as a waiter for weddings. Soon he started working as a bartender in different bars (one of the bars he worked for 2 years was in an ex church).

At the age of 22 he was the General Manager in a big club, being in charge of 62 people but he soon realizes that he liked bartending more so he returns to bartending and start going to cocktail competitions. After 23 competitions with no remarkable results, he started getting some good results, culminating with 1st place at Bols Around The World in Uk.

He moves to Amsterdam where he becomes the creative force behind the worlds 18th best cocktail bar: Tales & Spirits Cocktail Bar.

Being very ambitious, he decides to be the best bartender in the world but he couldn’t make the world come to him so he decides to go to the world so he starts The Vagabond Project so he started to work and travel around the world: in 16 months he traveled in 11 countries working in 11 bars (crazy!!)

After this insane journey he joins his forces to develop the worlds biggest bartender social media platform: Cocktails For You.

Recently he took his own path and started the Indie Bartender project with the purpose of Creating a new career path for the future leaders of the bar industry.

Find more details about this project and Danil’s story on his site:

https://www.indiebartender.com

If you want to hear Danil’s perception about Hospitality, jump in the podcast and enjoy our chat.

Cheers!🍸

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Today's guest is Nicky Neykov, who shares his story of over 20 years in the Hospitality Industry

He started in Hospitality Industry for pocket money but soon he realizes that he can make a career in this industry.

After working as a bartender in many places and being very passionate about this industry, he opens his own bartending school (first serious school in Bulgaria) back in 2003.

Then he moved to Spain where he spent 7 years where he established another bartending school, a bartenders equipment store, lots of bar catering events, consulting, and he opens his own bar which he franchised. Then he started competing in mixology competitions

Being tired of Gin and Tonics he goes back to his roots, in Sofia where he got the role of World Class Brand Ambassador, role that he still holds.

Since then, beside the World Class Brand Ambassador role, he starts lots of different projects. From events to consulting and many more. Jump in the episode to find out more…

Enjoy!

Cheers! 🍸

In this episode Lui Duende is my Guest and he shares his amazing wild journey in the Hospitality Industry.

Born in southern part of Venezuela, raised into the heart of mother nature in Amazonian Forest, at 9 years old he was giving touristic tours in the Canaiama National Park offering native Hospitality.

He felt in love with a woman from Denmark and they move together in Copenhagen where he discover a completely new world.

Hospitality being his passion, he starts working and learning to be a Chef. He studied Gastronomy at the best restaurants around the world. He worked in canteens, street food and Michelin Restaurants to understand how ”civilized” people eat.

Being raised in the Amazonian Jungle, his nourishment implied eating insects and having a Sustainable way of life.

With his childhood wild experience, his big passion is to offer memorable experiences and storytelling through food to his guests using insects as a symbol of sustainable way of living.

In this episode you’ll hear many of Lui’s secrets.

Enjoy!🙏

Cheers!🥂

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You can find Lui’s work:

https://www.jungla.dk

https://instagram.com/jungla.dk?igshid=hh2z7ya6inqy

Today’s guest is Aristotelis who started bartending in 1984, an era with no mobile phones and no internet, just with a book (Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's Guide) and a lot of dedication.

Being very passionate about Hospitality Industry he becomes the co-owner of his own bar in Bucharest, Romania (inspired from Dracula 🧛🏻‍♂️) in 1991.

Then he starts to participate in cocktail competition, winning some national finals and representing Greece at many Global finals.

In 2009 he is the first winner of Diageo World Class Global Finals and from then he starts a carousel of traveling, judging competitions and delivering masterclasses all around the world in a hectic pace.

In 2012 he officially launches his bar school ShoulShakers where he starts passing the legacy to the new bartending generations from the whole world.

In all this time, Telis continues to follow his passion of continuously mixing drinks and constant improvement of his recipes (from cocktails, mixers, to bitters and vermouths and many more).

As he’s saying “There is always space to make thing better.”

So after so many years, he’s still learning and improving himself.

Find his work on the pages:

Today I invited Marius Gogoasa to share some ideas from his loong history in the Hospitality Industry

At the end of 20th century he quits College to take the path of Hospitality. In 1999, at 20 years he opens his own beach bar. After a few years he joins the Marriott team where he learns a lot and soon becomes the bar manager. From that moment his career in this industry it’s getting serious and starts learning from the best people from this industry.

15 years ago he leaves Marriott and starts writing history in the Romanian bar scene. He opens Exquisite Bar Solutions with the purpose of training the Romanian Hospitality Industry. He continuously trained over 7.000 persons from Hospitality Industry (I strongly believe that he trained much more 😁). In those years he did many things but I'll let you discover them in this episode.

I can say that Marius is one of the main contributors of the Romanian Hospitality Industry as we know it.

You can find some of his work:

Today I invited Tim to talk about his rich history in Hospitality Industry. With around 63 countries under his belt, he studied hospitality in all the corners of the world (except Antarctica) in some of the best bars from some of the most passionate persons from the industry.

Enjoy this episode to find out some of Tim’s projects and secrets 🤓

Cheers! 🥂

In today's episode I invited Mihai Fetcu to discuss about the Hospitality Industry from his perspective.

Mihai started working in Hospitality Industry back in 2008 and he started as a Bellboy at a Hotel in Brasov, Romania. Then he was promoted as a Busboy and then he got the role of the bartender in the same hotel. Becoming very passionate about bartending, he started to learn all the secrets of this industry and slowly he becomes a trainer, then a consultant, podcaster, ice master and many more (you'll find in the episode how many things he's doing). I can say that he worked very very hard to be where he is today.

Enjoy this episode and you'll discover a few of Mihai's Secrets 🤭

Cheers! 🥂

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You can find Mihai's work here:

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