Opening a new Tiki bar restaurant? What do you look for in a Tiki bar? - General Tiki

T tikiskip Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Nov 26, 2005 Posts: 5993	T tikiskip Posted posted on Sat, Jan 26, 2019 1:05 PM EnchantedTikiGoth you almost did not even mention the food or drinks, so for you that's not a big deal and that's fine but we do need to remember these bars need to sell to live. While on the other hand most of the new bars here that I have seen fall WAY short of having a hook. AND they are really not even close to "a well-crafted, well-executed escapist atmosphere" Tiki Ti is so small yet the place is way cool, they also have MANY hooks as in great drinks and even cat calls when your order some drinks. Man it wakes the place up! Where we go not tiki, but the regular bartender is whipping talk up doing "who did that one song" type questions and it gets everybody at the bar talking. Now when he's not there the other guy gets you your drink and is gone, no fun, no talk. THEN he wonders why nobody comes in when he works. That is EVERY bartender I have seen at the new tiki joints here. "I wonder if that's why so many of the newer TIKI tiki bars don't serve food?" Well by law here they have to have some kind of food, guess chips would do but the new tiki joints have a kitchen and they serve stuff that is like the food stoners used to make when high in high school. "DUDE, what about a peanut butter with pineapple soaked in rum AND shrimp sandwich" The one I went to had a kitchen and I thought they had bought used equipment but the guy said it was new they just had a party the other night and did not clean up after. They just are not professional, they cater to their friends and F%^k the rest. Hate to see them racing to a brick wall but tried to tell the one guys near me and they don't want to hear it you become the bad guy. Really wanted them to last and miss them a lot. Would tell them to stop talking to us and see what the people who just came in wanted all the time. People would have MUCH rather sat at the bar at Kahiki that the not so great bartender was at than the better bartenders bar Cuz the not so great bartender was FUN! Somebody loses a lot of money when these places go out and I hate to see that. The people who drove it into the ground just trot off to the next place they proceed to drive into the ground.

EnchantedTikiGoth you almost did not even mention the food or drinks, so for you that's not a big deal and that's fine but we do need to remember these bars need to sell to live.
While on the other hand most of the new bars here that I have seen fall WAY short of having a hook.

AND they are really not even close to "a well-crafted, well-executed escapist atmosphere"
Tiki Ti is so small yet the place is way cool, they also have MANY hooks as in great drinks and even cat calls when your order some drinks.

Man it wakes the place up!

Where we go not tiki, but the regular bartender is whipping talk up doing "who did that one song" type questions and it gets everybody at the bar talking.
Now when he's not there the other guy gets you your drink and is gone, no fun, no talk.

THEN he wonders why nobody comes in when he works.
That is EVERY bartender I have seen at the new tiki joints here.

"I wonder if that's why so many of the newer TIKI tiki bars don't serve food?"
Well by law here they have to have some kind of food, guess chips would do but the new tiki joints have a kitchen and they serve stuff that is like the food stoners used to make when high in high school.

"DUDE, what about a peanut butter with pineapple soaked in rum AND shrimp sandwich"

The one I went to had a kitchen and I thought they had bought used equipment but the guy said it was new they just had a party the other night and did not clean up after.

They just are not professional, they cater to their friends and F%^k the rest.

Hate to see them racing to a brick wall but tried to tell the one guys near me and they don't want to hear it you become the bad guy.
Really wanted them to last and miss them a lot.

Would tell them to stop talking to us and see what the people who just came in wanted all the time.

People would have MUCH rather sat at the bar at Kahiki that the not so great bartender was at than the better bartenders bar Cuz the not so great bartender was FUN!

Somebody loses a lot of money when these places go out and I hate to see that.
The people who drove it into the ground just trot off to the next place they proceed to drive into the ground.

Post #792702 by tikiskip on Sat, Jan 26, 2019 1:05 PM