Tales of the Cocktail | What It's Like to Run a Bar With Your Spouse

Owning a bar is one part mixing drinks and two parts customer service — with dashes of bookkeeping, housekeeping, staff management, inventory and marketing thrown in for good measure. So what happens when you add a relationship to the mix?

Photo: J.R. Ward.

Two couples — Anna Levy Mains and Drew Mains of Oklahoma City’s In the Raw Sushi Bar, Knucks Wheelhouse, and Rockford Cocktail Den, and Krista and Jerry Slater of Atlanta’s H. Harper Station — who are managing thriving restaurants and relationships, offer their take on mixing personal with professional.