From the article, it includes people I wouldn't have thought of:

According to California’s Assembly Bill 122, alcohol servers are defined as anyone who:

- Checks IDs for alcohol consumption or entry into a licensed establishment - Takes alcoholic beverage orders - Pours alcoholic beverages - Serves/delivers alcoholic beverages to patrons

All of the above are required to be licensed according to the new law.

Furthermore, any managers and supervisors are also required to become licensed. A manager/supervisor is anyone who:

- Directly hires or oversees alcohol servers - Trains alcohol servers how to bartend (including how to check IDs and/or when to refuse service to patrons)

According go the bureau of labor statistics there are 1.8m people in the entire country who quality as servers and another 720k who are bartenders. Again, that's the whole country.

California as a whole has 60k bartenders and 171k waiters/waitresses- and that includes places that don't serve alcohol.

Go to a bar and you’ll find out

Anyone in the chain from storage to the table is involved, including servers, managers, etc.

"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 644,100 bartenders working in the US in 2018. That number is forecasted to grow faster than most jobs, rising 8% between 2018 and 2028."

So apparently California has all of them, plus extras.

You think there's only 118M people in California?