On New Year’s Eve in 2006, 24-year-old David Kaplan opened the first Death & Co as a blink-and-you’d-miss-it cocktail bar in Manhattan’s East Village.

Five days later, a feature in the New York Times captured the imagination of the city’s cocktail lovers, and there’s been a line out the door to experience Death & Co ever since.

Today, Death & Co is one of the most recognized names in cocktails .

The bars welcome more than 10,000 visitors each week and the company is on track to do $20 million this year.

No surprise, considering they’re listed in “The World’s 50 Best Bars” and their cocktail book was the first drinks book to win the James Beard Award for “Book of the Year.”

Building off their iconic Death & Co brand, they have their sights set on a new frontier: Building a global h

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