Union Square eatery Coffee Shop hired 29-year-old blond beauty Courtney Yates five years ago. When she first walked in, she was accompanied by a pretty pal, had rock-star hair and a great smile. She had never waited a table in her life, but it didn’t matter — she was hired on the spot.
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Staff from Union Square’s Coffee Shop take a break from carrying trays. Pictured here (left to right) are Katherine Tabor, Alix Brown and Courtney Yates.
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Keith McNally, who recently opened haute pizza joint Pulino’s, is “a great example of a restaurateur who figures the look and sensibility of the server into his very successful formula,” says Zagat senior editor Carol Diuguid. Pictured here is Pulino’s staffer Daryl Dismond.
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Natasha David is a bartender at Pulino’s.
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Vincent Mauriello, regional manager of Gerber Group, which owns the Midtown eateries Whiskey Park, Whiskey Blue and Stone Rose, acknowledges that his employees are attractive — but that’s not the only factor when hiring staff. Pictured are (left to right) Krystel Bua, Rebecca Hajek, Tonya Charle Webb, Christina Pazcoguin, Ashlee Montague and Jenna Choate.
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Jenna Choate of Whiskey Park holds up a cocktail.
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