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Article: Ready to pour it on.(Business)(Area bartenders brace for New Year's Eve, one of the busiest - and craziest - nights of the year)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 31, 2005
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Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard
For most people, New Year's Eve is a time to relax and celebrate. But for bartenders, it's show time.
New Year's Eve is not the biggest bar night of the year in Eugene - drink pourers say University of Oregon graduation drowns out every other occasion - but it's a close second and barkeeps can still take home hundreds of dollars in one night.
And avoid that pesky New Year's Day hangover.
`The beautiful side of bartending (on New Year's Eve) is you are the host of the party,' says Tom Kamis, a bartender at Cafe Soriah in Eugene. "And if you are not having a good time, you are doing something ...