""We started on Speed Rack in June 2011," Marrero told Brooklyn Paper. "I keep joking, you know, this year is our quinceañera - even though we're in Season 14, because we had a gap year with the pandemic, so it took an extra long time to finish that season.""
""What everyone thought was the meme of this bar movement had to be the classic bartender with arm garters and a mustache and suspenders," she said. "Women weren't fitting into that look.""
""I'd go into these bars and the star bartender guy is in the front working on drinks for three people, and there's this amazing bartender and she is cranking out drinks for hundreds of people," Marrero said."
Speed Rack is an all-women and femme bartending competition returning to New York on March 9 at Mellrose Ballroom, mixing punk-concert energy with athletic bartending performances. The competition has raised more than $1.85 million for breast cancer education, prevention, and research since 2011 and organizers aim to surpass $2 million this season. Founded by Lynette Marrero and Ivy Mix during the modern cocktail renaissance, Speed Rack was created in response to cocktail culture images that marginalized women and to showcase hardworking female bartenders who were producing high-volume, high-quality service behind the scenes.
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