All in the family
Sean Kenyon was born into a bartending family: His mother’s father, Benny ‘Lope’ Berman, owned and operated Lope’s in Paterson, New Jersey, and Sean’s father, Bob, owned the Cellar Door in Ridgeway, New Jersey for almost fifty years before retiring. Here are some of Bob’s thoughts on generational bartending.
On how Sean’s father got started:
“I was drafted into Vietnam and came back and was working at a luggage store, but there was a fire next door, and a friend of mine owned a bar in Clifton. He said, ‘You know, while you’re down, come tend bar,’ but I never did it before, so he taught me what
