![]() ![]() You didn't tell him it was your birthday? He just assumed it was? It was a business dude and he was like, "Here you go." And he thought it was my birthday, and it was December and was not my birthday. I think I once got a $100 tip and a bottle of really expensive tequila. And then it just makes you feel like sh*t because then your Bloody Mary sucks all of a sudden. So even if you have the greatest Bloody Mary to a handful of people, there's going to be that person that hates it. So it's like everybody wants something different. It's so hard because everybody has their kind of taste to it. Lukasavitz: I absolutely hate making Bloody Marys from scratch. And then my cocktail that I drink is raspberry vodka and seltzer with a lime.ĭo you have a drink that you hate to make? Everybody knows what Sam wants a shot of. You leave friends with everybody in the bar.ĭo you have a signature drink that you like to make … or drink? It's one of those neighborhood bars where you know if that person's not here that day, something's going on. And everybody just comes in, they know each other. Lukasavitz: Everybody just comes here and just is free to be themselves. So I get to sit at home and digest everything that happened from bartending. I do the back end of it, the billing part of it. Lukasavitz: I mean, I don't talk to anybody at my other job. Well, I guess you're making people feel better at both jobs. Lukasavitz: I have another full-time job. I was like, I have extra time because I'm only working five hours a day." And she asked, "You want to work here?" And I took the job sight unseen, and I've been here now for almost three years.ĭo you do things other than bartend or is this your full-time gig? Lukasavitz: I needed a job because we were on COVID hours, and my old regular, who I knew from one of the places I bartended at, posted something looking for bartenders. OnMilwaukee: Why did you pick On The Edge for your current bartending job? “And then you become a regular because you're always coming back.” “If you came and you weren’t a regular, you're leaving a regular,” says Lukasavitz. ![]() We caught up with Lukasavitz on a Friday night, and she’s not kidding when she says every customer knows her name. While bartending at age 17 is illegal, Lukasavitz has held numerous legit gigs around town, too, from Lucky's Irish Pub & Grill, Red Robin, Kelly's Bleachers, Aliota’s – and now at On The Edge Bar & Grill in Greenfield for the past three years. That’s probably because she started serving drinks when she was in high school at an old club on Water Street called Six Degrees. The restaurant also will have four limited video lottery machines, he said.Sam Lukasavitz is only in her early thirties, but she’s been bartending for a long time. In addition to the mechanical bull, the Saddle Ridge will have karaoke on Tuesday, line dancing on Thursday, bands on Friday, a disc jockey on Saturday and bike night on Sunday, he said. ![]() Why would I want another one?” he said.Īt one time, Kamikaze’s (and later Velocity) was known as the only club in the country where the female bartenders served patrons in the nude.Įlkobi also owns the Gym Fitness & Tan, 2429 Lincoln Highway, and two limited video lottery cafes in Chester. The restaurant will close at 3 a.m.Įlkobi, who owns Fantasy’s Gentlemen’s Club on state Route 2, said he was not interested in perpetuating the building’s history as a nude nightclub. The Saddle Ridge will have a chef providing a full lunch and dinner menu from 11 a.m. We want people to come and bring their kids,” Elkobi said. The building is undergoing an interior and exterior renovation and should be ready for an Oct. “I want people to walk in here and say, ‘Wow, this is totally different.’ “ “There’s nothing like this from here to Pittsburgh or Youngstown,” he said. ![]()
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