Joey Camasta

Yeah, food and wine.

Yep, we got free food, but then the thing is we had a sake.

Like, the sake that we would serve, like, there was bartenders that would serve the drink, but we had house-infused sakes.

And we'd have them.

Is this place still open?

No, it's closed down.

It's gone.

It was a Vietnamese restaurant.

Oh, look at you.

I'm very global.

So I would go into the back where we were serving and I would kneel down where the pitchers were and I would just fill up water glasses of the pineapple infused sake and just slam it.

No, I loved it because I loved the theater of it.

I loved carrying the plates and being dramatic.

Yeah, but I was really bad at it because I would forget things all the time.

And then I'd forget to put entrees in.

Then I'd have to go and beg the person to give me someone else's table's food.

I think I'm good at memorizing, but I did have to write things down.

But then that's what I hated about because I didn't even have registers then.

This is back in the 40s.

So we had to use smoke signals, believe it or not.