Would you prefer Tiki as 'mainstream' or 'underground'? - General Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 6:22 PM On 2005-01-13 17:32, Kono wrote: Will the tiki underground keep Trader Vics in business? I don't think so. The folks I saw buying the ten dollar drinks and thirty dollar entrees were not wearing aloha shirts or Kustom Kulture T-shirts, they were wearing some pretty fancy duds. A good point and this is particularly salient to us Brits as Trader Vic's London branch depends on the rich (and those on expenses) to survive. 99% of the clientele wouldn't know Tiki from a hole in the ground, but they keep Tiki in London at one of it's finest addresses. (On the Monopoly board, overlooking Hyde Park). It would never have survived on a clientele of aloha-shirted Tiki-philes. Trader Woody

On 2005-01-13 17:32, Kono wrote:
Will the tiki underground keep Trader Vics in business? I don't think so. The folks I saw buying the ten dollar drinks and thirty dollar entrees were not wearing aloha shirts or Kustom Kulture T-shirts, they were wearing some pretty fancy duds.

A good point and this is particularly salient to us Brits as Trader Vic's London branch depends on the rich (and those on expenses) to survive. 99% of the clientele wouldn't know Tiki from a hole in the ground, but they keep Tiki in London at one of it's finest addresses. (On the Monopoly board, overlooking Hyde Park). It would never have survived on a clientele of aloha-shirted Tiki-philes.

Trader Woody

Post #135412 by Trader Woody on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 6:22 PM