Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is returning to bartending for a great cause.
AOC will tend a bar in Queens, New York, this Friday to promote a livable wage for tipped workers, reports The New York Post. She announced her plans on Twitter.
To the silver spoon classists saying they’re going to “make AOC bartend again”:
You’re in luck! I’ll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage.
So there you have it, ya bunch of milk drinkers???????? Let’s see if my margarita+mocktail game is still on point https://t.co/zO7YBA0LCL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 29, 2019
“To the silver spoon classists saying they’re going to ‘make AOC bartend again’: You’re in luck,” she said. “I’ll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage.”
She also had a tip for working bartenders.
Use real citrus juice for your sours, people!
You deserve so much better than what you’re settling for ????
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 29, 2019
“At the event I will also unveil my newest platform policy: Abolish Sour Mix 2020,” AOC tweeted. “Use real citrus juice for your sours, people! You deserve so much better than what you’re settling for.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s shift is a collaboration with Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United to advocate for the One Fair Wage Act. If the bill succeeds, it would be illegal for businesses to pay tipped workers below the minimum wage. Tipped workers include but aren't limited to restaurant workers, nail shop employees and car washers.
The freshman congresswoman is open about her past in the food service industry and sees it as an honor.
.@AOC: "I'm proud to be a bartender. Ain't nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy. There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat." pic.twitter.com/4uveYJNqVj
— The Hill (@thehill) April 5, 2019
‘I’m proud to be a bartender. Ain’t nothing wrong with that,” she said at the National Action Network convention in April, according to The Hill. “There’s nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America. And there is everything dignified about it … If I could work in a restaurant and become a member of Congress, so can you. So can you.”
Her experiences in the service industry allow her to empathize with the working class.
“There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy,” AOC added. “There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat. There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work. There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America and there is everything dignified about it.”