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, Karen King on the show of Weimbough. Hello, how are you? I'm good. How are you?

I'm good. How are you? Very nice to see you. Good to see you. So you grew up in the south? I grew up in Ohio till 8th grade and then in Nashville from 8th grade through college and then I

lived in Boston for a couple years and then I moved back to Tennessee for a few years before I moved to New York.

And what was college like for you?

I loved it.

I went to a small school, George Peabody College for teachers.

It's part of Vanderbilt University now.

And it was about 2,500 students, really pretty campus.

Mostly gals, though, it wasn't,

they used to say Peabody College where the girls are girls and the boys are too.

So then I went from that to the restaurant world.

What was the move into restaurants?

I was in college and my roommate was working in a restaurant and

I would watch her every night come home and sit in the middle of the floor and

counter tips and I thought I got to get out of this work study program and work in a

restaurant so I started and study program and work in a restaurant.

So I started and my senior year in college I did it and then after college I waited tables

a little bit then I traveled and then I taught school in my second year I taught

school I waited tables again do more traveling to support that and I was actually

trying to get out of the restaurant business when I got the job at Union Square

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