After working as a bartender for 10 years, Samantha “Sammy Jo” Alvarez is getting ready to serve some slightly less potent potables.
On Mother’s Day weekend, Alvarez hopes to open Guapo’s Coffee House at 106 North Bay Ave. in Beach Haven. For the past four years, she has been on the staff of Bird & Betty’s in Beach Haven and also tended the bar at The Ketch, which is now Bird & Betty’s. She also served up drinks at the Casa Verde Hotel in Puerto Rico.
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