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What makes one bar popular and another not?

Posted on 7/20/14 at 11:58 am
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 11:58 am
never really got what made one bar popular in college and another not.

they all had drink specials, they all played the same music, all dirty crap holes.

what draws/drew you to one over another?

Saw that "Bogies" is 20 years old......that place was like 10 different places that all went out of business....what made the bogie's concept that much more appealing over "someplace else" (I think the first incarnation in that establishment)?
Posted by wildtigercat93
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 11:59 am to
Vaginas
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:00 pm to
Pussy

You get that to come and you got a successful bar
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:00 pm to
Where's the pussy?
Posted by The Bruce
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:02 pm to
Has anyone mentioned pussy yet?
Posted by roguetiger15
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:02 pm to
Cater to the females and the guys will follow. Keep the women feeling comfortable and they'll stay longer and come back, have great martini and drink specials and a bar staff that knows how to smile and keeps their head up always looking for someone needing a drink. Enforce 21 and up and no smoking inside. No pool tables. They bring the wrong crowd and take up space.

Oh and have a very clean women's bathroom

And last but not least know your margins and adjust to the clientele in your area
This post was edited on 7/20/14 at 12:05 pm
Posted by CorkSoaker
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:08 pm to
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Edit: and dick
This post was edited on 7/20/14 at 12:12 pm
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:09 pm to
You were supposed to say dick.
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
27462 posts
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:13 pm to
so would a faux-wine bar work in baton rouge?

chic wine bar set-up....but only serving cheap wine for a few dollars a glass versus $7-10/glass

girls can play dress up, guys collared shirts must be tucked in?
Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:14 pm to
Drunk bitches and cheap booze
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:19 pm to
Keeping flatbill guido douchebags out surely helps business.
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:22 pm to
You have to know your market also. A bunch of young professionals don't want to go to a techno bar just like young kids don't want to go to a wine/scotch/cigar bar.
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
27462 posts
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:22 pm to
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flatbill guido douchebags out surely helps business.


don't those guy get laid more? You sure that's not what the girls really "want" at that age?
Posted by Mr Fusion
The American Dream City
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:22 pm to
quote:

but only serving cheap wine for a few dollars a glass versus $7-10/glass 

Tuesday nights keep JL's in business.
Posted by Breesus
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Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:23 pm to
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? You sure that's not what the girls really "want" at that age?



Dirty bar trash girls, yes.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
22901 posts
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:24 pm to
quote:

don't those guy get laid more?


Not sure about that

quote:

You sure that's not what the girls really "want" at that age?


Any decent girls I hung out with did not.

I went to Bogie's because it is where the greeks usually went. They had a dress code that kept tatted up meatheads and thugs out for the most part. Had good drink specials as well, fun place.

Also you had to be 20 to get in rather than 18 (for guys) when I was in school. It was an attempt to keep the hothead idiots who like to fight out of the bar as well. Girls at 19 could get in I believe.
This post was edited on 7/20/14 at 12:27 pm
Posted by Iona Fan Man
Member since Jan 2006
27462 posts
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:29 pm to
quote:

Tuesday nights keep JL's in business.



unfamiliar


I want to do "bottles" like pitchers

frick by the glass/pint

Posted by snake23
NOLA/BR
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:40 pm to
For seven Saturdays in the fall you pack that bitch with as many people as possible and make as much money as possible. For the rest of the year you try not to blow all the money you made just to stay afloat until next football season. That's how you have a successful bar in a college town
Posted by Boomtown
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:43 pm to
quote:

Oh and have a very clean women's bathroom


Bogies?
Posted by Mac
Forked Island, USA
Member since Nov 2007
14657 posts
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:45 pm to
That guy definitely wasn't talking about Bogies
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