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On 2011-03-10 00:30, cheekytiki wrote:
On 2011-03-09 15:07, tastysp wrote:
When the bar is 4 deep and everyone is asking what's in this drink or that drink you'll start pulling your hair out.
This is why it can be useful to have at least one bartender working a service station at the quiet end of the bar knocking out drinks for waitresses without being bothered by the customers.
Thing is we don't have waitresses/waiters, we're a give n go bar and it seems that's what the OP is looking to do.
to the OP if you want to have live music, this comes with it's own share of problems,
If you look at the comments above, the average Tikiphile is looking for a nice quiet place to have a cocktail that's done right.
When you own a bar, that's the LAST thing you want on a weekend, if you want to make money, then volume is the way to do it, that means, beer and shot, loud music from live bands which is anathema to most Tikiphiles.
We use (gasp!) plastic cups on the weekends for our non tiki drinks because of breakage, dancing, moshing and general stupidity.
The ideal tiki enviroment is just not a realistic way to make money, esp. on a weekend.
I've been to Painkiller in NYC on the weekends and I will say that they have one of the most amazing drink menus I've ever seen but on a weekend it's insane in there!
You may have to wait up to 20-30 minutes to get your drink sometimes. The drink will be awesome but sometimes I ask myself, how can they keep this up? Compare that to a bar that can sell 60 beers or vodka tonics in that same time frame and money will always win out in the end. If you are going to a bar to see a band, are you going to wait at the bar for 20 minutes for a drink?
[ Edited by: tastysp 2011-03-11 09:53 ]
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