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Last seating: Trader Vic's maitre d' retires after 57 years

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) — She's worn a gardenia in her hair every day since she started working in 1960 at Trader Vic's, the legendary home of mai tai cocktails. But now Claudette Lum is about to preside over her final seating as a maitre d' at the tiki-themed restaurant. She's retiring at the end of this year at age 80. She never imagined she'd stay this long when she was hired 57 years ago by Trader Vic's founder, the late Victor Bergeron. "I just kept going," Lum said.

 

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