Post #792289 by tikiskip on Sun, Jan 6, 2019 7:31 AM

"I did put on my flame-proof asbestos tapa-printed bark-cloth underwear today, so feel free to flame"

Ok here ya go, More people care about the price of the drink than these high dollar "craft Cocktails"
Many of the new tiki bars I go to, as in before they open and talk about lights and drinks they all say "we are going to make Craft cocktails here"
They use good rums and those luxardo cherries, now those things are great but that bill come at the end of the night and that leaves a bitter taste in your mouth that you won't forget next time you go out.

I think they got in their mind this daydream that the food network will find them and do whole shows on them and how great their everything is.
That only happens VERY rarely and there are but a few tiki bars in the nation that make great drinks in my mind worth the 10 to 15 bucks they charge for them.

AND most of the time people are only going to these places as a special night or even a vacation type deal.

Man dial the cost back get the booze and money for that matter FLOWIN.
Fun starts when people are a bit juiced up and a busy place is fun, it's exciting.
The place starts to hum, you and your customers can FEEL it.

They can also feel a dead boring bar.

I know because the restaurant I had 14 years ago was cheap, oh I served great food but the average ticket price was 5 to 7 bucks.
That was every thing the burger fries and a drink!

MAN it would get so busy the phone ringing place packed people would watch me at the grill tickets stacked end to end three feet long, they would not leave till I snapped or got through all those tickets.

We would see other employees outside my window from places next door looking in to see if we were busy, and we were, they were dead.

I was "the king of Lynn Ally" one old timer restaurateur said with more than a bit of resentment in his voice, he went out of business quickly.

We made a lot of money off of a lot of people, but it was volume, a dollar here, and a buck there.

I kid Ace about the flame, It's great the time you put into your drinks and that's fine for the home I guess, for me all that fancy exotic drink ingredient stuff is over for the most part as we did that too at home some time ago.

One guy we knew would make these drinks from this new drink book with all this fancy S**T
They were ok, I think he just wanted an excuse to buy all those fancy ingredients his wife would bit*h about.

It was nice of him to do but, a regular Mai Tai giving him more time to BS and talk would have been better.