The success of piña colada around the world is due to Mr. Monchito, one of the waiters at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Don Ramón Marrero (as the employee was actually called) added generous doses of rum to his creation. The establishment had opened six years earlier, in December 1949, being the first of the renowned chain outside the continental United States. Frank Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony or Bad Bunny have slept in their suites.