In July of 2017, Brittany was a newly hired bartender at the Shannon Rose in Ramsey, New Jersey. Yev, who previously worked at the Rose for years, would pop in sporadically for “celeb shifts” when he was needed, as he had a different job at that time. Walking into her shift one day, Brittany was confused as to who the “new guy” was as she was bartending full time and had never seen Yev before. Yev made his presence known that he was not new as their first meeting was a back-and-forth battle on who was in control as they both would try claiming the service bar area to work in. Yev soon realized he was not going to win this fight and was no longer in control (and later realized that was the last time he would have any control). After meeting Brittany, Yev would come into the Rose after his other job to spend time with her while she worked, even though he would say he was just hungry. In addition, he coincidentally started picking up more shifts than what he used to work. Yev even came in on Valentine’s Day with a red rose as he knew Brittany was working that night (he still had access to the employees’ online schedules). Eventually in August of 2018, after being friends and co-workers for some time, Yev and Brittany finally had their very delayed first official date (without all their co-workers) at a cliché movie and dinner date which started everything, especially the start of $5 Movie Tuesday date nights.