I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Liz Mendez on the show of Vera Wine Bar in Chicago. Hello, how are you?

I am wonderful. Thanks for having me. Nice to see you. You too.

So your grandmother owned a jewelry store? Yeah she didn't own it she ran it for

almost 25 years and definitely put me to work at a very young age. And what was that like?

What I mean what's in a jewelry store besides jewelry? at a very young age. And what was that like?

I mean, what's in a jewelry store besides

jewelry?

Besides diamonds, which aren't a bad thing

for a little girl to love.

You know, a lot of China and glassware and decanters and silver that was I mean and you still see that in jewelry stores now not as much as you used two years back but a lot of things that you would see in

your home like in the China cabinet were a big part of what she did in her day-to-day routine.

So what's that mean for lunches and dinners at the house?

Does that mean a lot of flatware?

Yeah, you know, being, being, I was an only child and being raised by my single mom spent a lot of time with my grandparents

and you know very kind of minimal means that we had for entertaining kids.

So my grandmother kind of made everything a party,

even breakfast, you know, putting the crystal glasses out for juice and having the flatware

and whatnot.

So she really made every single meal fun for me and that was entertainment because you know we weren't going to the movies

or the amusement parks or whatnot.

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