Post #267455 by I dream of tiki on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 8:27 PM

What hasn't been mentioned yet is marketing.

How many tiki establishments do you know market themselves heavily? There has to be a way to spin the establishments in a way that reintroduces them to the masses, thus upping business.

Okay, not everyone can really patron their fav place as much as we'd like. But we can insist that the place gets the word out.

Honestly, I grew up in South Florida and didn't know about the Mai Kai until a friend of mine told me it still existed. Otherwise, I don't see advertisements aside from a small little add in the free New Times publication.

There has to be a way to up the profitability as well as wade through the red tape for preservation status.

I think its got to be a little bit of both, as well as some thinking outside the box. Look at Tiki Kiliki's Tiki Torch nights at the Atlanta Trader Vics'. It upped business and local awareness to a place that was almost empty for a time.