Post #217786 by GatorRob on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:18 PM

I personally would love to have the Kona Club in my neighborhood. At least it sounds like the bartenders are accomodating in trying to make the drinks you and I want without losing their existing customers. That's a win for the owners and a win for the customers. What I don't understand is a fairly new place like Waitiki in Orlando that looks great and obviously spent a fair amount of money on decor, but really only excels at serving beer. They had no existing customers to keep happy (unless there was something else at that location that I'm not aware of). So in this case, what motivates the owner to theme the decor around tiki? Would his customers really care if the wall art was Shag or NASCAR? I don't think so. That's the perplexing thing. Maybe when the place first opened, the drinks were much better and economics forced him to cut back. I don't know. Someone enlighten me if you do.

I didn't mean to shift the focus of this thread onto another bar. I was just using my local bar as a specific example in my general inquiry. Disclaimer over.