That is great advice. What I'd want to do sorta negates some of those concerns but not completely.

On my last trip to Denver I went to a place called First Draft. You can google it to see the concept but basically you walk in and give your credit/debit card to an employee to swipe and you get a card in return. There's a wall of taps and you have to scan your card to access each tap handle. That card tracks how much beer you pour and each beer costs a different price per ounce depending on what it is.

The place was very modern and I fell in love with the concept. You just go and turn in your card when you're done and they close out your tab. Another thing is they capped how many ounces of beer you were allowed to drink. If memory serves me right it was 40 or so. Though my buddy who lives there says that if they can tell you aren't sloppy then they can reset your card to allow you to drink more if requested.

That concept will make it down here eventually and whoever decides to bring it I believe will be successful.

4 ...

Report Post

Posted by Clint Torres

Member since Oct 2011

2662 posts

Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:06 pm to dualed

quote:
give your credit/debit card to an employee to swipe and you get a card in return. There's a wall of taps and you have to scan your card to access each tap handle

That's pretty much how WINO works in NOLA.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by jbgleason

Bailed out of BTR to God's Country

Member since Mar 2012

18928 posts

Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:54 pm to dualed

quote:
Another thing is they capped how many ounces of beer you were allowed to drink. If memory serves me right it was 40 or so.

That right there will kill the place in LA. Not saying everyone sets out to over drink here but the act of telling someone how many beers they are allowed, in South LA anyway, will earn you shite reviews with the quickness. NO WAY I would invest in that concept here.

BTW, for the guy that mentioned the BullDog's "absent" owner I have some news. A high level employee of that company was one of my research interviews. I bought her dinner off site and got some low down. The owner has every camera in every bar ported to her house where she sits and watches the bar locations nightly. In a creepy stalkerish way as a matter of fact. She also has cameras in the back and the Manager's office that she watches. I was in the BullDog on Perkins talking to this same manager when her cell phone rang and it was the owner informing her that a lightbulb over some of the taps had just gone out. Manager had to stop our conversation and go change it. FWIW, I believe the owner lives in MS and not CA. But either way, I wouldn't classify her as an "absentee" owner in that sense.

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by yellowfin