Post #806740 by tikiskip on Sat, Dec 3, 2022 5:54 AM

I would bet that everybody who says, "you know what you need to do here is...." Thinks they are being genuinely helpful and not bitching.

But think about the person who owns the joint, if you are not a regular he is thinking "man this guy comes in every now and then spends a few bucks and now wants to run the joint"

I would have to hope that a person who puts what two hundred and fifty thousand and up into a bar restaurant would have to know there is music that goes with that decor, there could be a slight chance he does not know of tiki style music I guess.

Grew up in the restaurant business and even now talk to Restaurant and bar owners and workers this is how they talk/think, it's money, if playing the Happy Birthday song every day would pack the place with people who spend money then The Happy birthday song would play every day over and over.

Always kills me when at tiki events and bars restaurants a person starts talking about all the things they need to do to make the tiki events and bars restaurants better but this person spends NOTHING.

Sorry but they don't really want you to come if you don't help them keep running by spending money and help them pay the bills.

Plus, maybe many people don't like tiki type music at all.

I do like some of it, but I need to be in the mood for it and even in a tiki bar sometimes I don't want to hear Quiet Village or Gene Rains on a Friday night, brings on "I'm tired let's go to bed" and not the kind of let's go to bed guys like.

Do know there are more lively tunes than that, but they are not the same as that song you grew up with or that favorite new song, those songs make people drink and go to bed in a way that guys like.

Once my wife and I start to like a product it goes away so heck maybe we are really good at finding out what people don't want these days.

I love to go to places at the end of the night because that is when you hear the owners and workers get real and talk about these things, it is an eye opener. Plus, I was always the cook in the back of these places and heard what that waitress who LOOOVES you and your wife really thinks about you.

You are money, they love you for the tip you leave, period.

Don't think me mad at you or bitching I'm just trying to let you know what I have seen over a life (60) years in the restaurant business has showed me.

[ Edited by tikiskip on 2022-12-03 05:58:13 ]