We’re in the midst of a campaign to find LA’s best bartender - contest.table20.com. Our goal is to find LA’s best by having you tell us who your favorite bartenders are.
We’d like to make the process of submitting your favorite barkeep as simple as possible. So for a limited time you can leave a comment in this blog post telling us who you like, why, and immediately get a chance to be 1 of 10 people to win “How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice”
In addition, at the end of the contest you’ll have a shot at winning a $275 LA Entertainment Package which includes the following:
• tickets for two to the post-contest party - there will be 25 randomly drawn ticket winners
Enter in two steps.
1. Leave a comment below with the following info about your favorite bartender.
• first name (full name if possible)
• place of work (name and location)
• why they deserve to be named LA’s Best Bartender
2. Then retweet or Share through Facebook “I nominated my favorite LA bartender and got a chance to win ‘How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice’ http://bit.ly/9qcWk1″
Then we’ll jet out to their bar to let them know how much you appreciate them and take their picture for their official entry into the contest.
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Your contest entry will be invalid if we are unable to take a picture of your bartender or if someone else submits your favorite bartender to our contest site before we can get your entry loaded to the site.
Vetting Phase
At the end of the 30-day nomination and voting period the top nominees, by number of votes, will be vetted to ensure they exist, are employed and are interested in participating further.
The top 25 nominees, following the vetting process, will win a custom designed Table 20 t-shirt. The top nominees will be announced via the Table 20 blog.
Finalist Selection Phase
Following the vetting phase, the top vote getter will be named the People’s Choice winner and be automatically included as a finalist.
The judges will each select a bartender to be a finalist from the remaining 24 nominees. A judge can make their decision based on the why the bartender was nominated, comments attributed, number of votes, and personal experience. Each of the five judges will choose one nominee for a total of five judge-selected finalists.
This phase will result in 6 finalists – 5 judge selected and 1 People’s Choice winner.
Consideration Phase
Table 20 will contact the six finalists for interviews. Judges may visit bartenders to meet, interview and sample a drink.
Winner Selection Phase
The judges, using a ranking system will select the winner of the contest; the aggregated rankings of the judges will determine the overall winner of the contest.
The winner and finalists will be featured on the Table 20 and LA Sates blog.
We’ve created this t-shirt as a special prize for our upcoming Service Props contest. The top nominees from the contest will win this t-shirt. The finalists and winners will win a bunch other cool stuff too.
We’re most proud of this prize because it’s a one-of-a-kind design depicting the day-to-day restaurant and bar industry experience. We put a lot of thought and effort into it - we hope you appreciate it too.
Printed on American Apparel t-shirt. Designed by Chris Piascik, conceived and directed by Trevor Smith.
This version of Table 20 has been 2 years in the making. We’re glad that it’s finally going to get a workout.
This is just our soft opening. We need a little time to work out the kinks in the system: typos, missing pages, page errors, programming ghosts . . . before the GRAND OPENING.
While we get up to speed we’ve kicked in a few incentives to get you on board.
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EMPLOYERS
Take advantage of our Los Angeles soft opening promotions.
The Good Offer: Sign-up today to receive 3 free ad credits for future use – that’s a $75 value.
The Great Offer: Sign-up and post one job ad by August 15, 2010 to receive 6 free ad credits for future use – that’s a $150 value.
Next week we’re launching the first LA Service Props profile here at Table 20.
It took a while to find the right person to set the tone for Service Props, but Dan Cox led us in the right direction. That dude knows a little (a lot of) something about the restaurant industry and people in LA.
We intend for this to be the first of many Service Props for the people who make you smile when you go out to eat & drink in LA. It’s not just about the food it’s also about the people.
I encourage all the foodie paparazzi out there to occasionally raise your camera from that plate or cocktail and point it at the guy or gal that made it, served it or cleared it away. You’ll love the smiles you get from the appreciation.
Spread the love!
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Do you know someone great that deserves Service Props? Just send their name, place of work, a pic and why they rock in an email message to “trevor at table20 dot com”. Inspired by Chef Crush.
We are looking for an angel investor or a team of angels to join the Table 20 team and help support the Los Angeles marketing push.
We’ve put together a formal business plan covering off on all the details: the objectives, management team, marketing plan, financial projections and secret sauce.
The minimum investment is $2,000, we’d prefer those that have hospitality experience and some industry connections.
Interested? Send me a message at invest@table20.com and we’ll take it from there.
So for a limited time you can leave a comment in this blog post telling us who you like, why, and immediately get a chance to be 1 of 10 people to win “How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice”
