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New bar in STL charges customers by the hour, not by the drink
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:58 am
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:58 am
Vice.com
On Friday, Open Concept celebrated its grand opening, and it launched its, uh, concept too: for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want. And on Saturdays, it plans to serve bottomless mimosas, unlimited bellinis, and a buffet brunch for 20 bucks an hour.
And yeah, he has a plan for preventing his customers from rolling in, dropping a $10 bill on the bar, and spending the next 59 minutes getting absolutely shitfaced. First, before anyone can book an hour of time at Open Concept—yes, he's banking on everyone's ability to plan ahead—they'll have to create a profile so they can receive a confirmation code.
That code is then used for their drink orders, too. The bartenders know better than to serve a customer more than one drink at a time, and the bar's top-secret system will somehow calculate the appropriate rate of consumption to keep everyone from being overserved. Butler also says that the bartenders will scan everyone's driver's license and "use a patron’s height and weight" to ensure that they're not drinking too much, too fast. (We're predicting that absolutely zero people will be excited about having to tell the bartender their weight just so they can get a third rum punch.)
On Friday, Open Concept celebrated its grand opening, and it launched its, uh, concept too: for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want. And on Saturdays, it plans to serve bottomless mimosas, unlimited bellinis, and a buffet brunch for 20 bucks an hour.
And yeah, he has a plan for preventing his customers from rolling in, dropping a $10 bill on the bar, and spending the next 59 minutes getting absolutely shitfaced. First, before anyone can book an hour of time at Open Concept—yes, he's banking on everyone's ability to plan ahead—they'll have to create a profile so they can receive a confirmation code.
That code is then used for their drink orders, too. The bartenders know better than to serve a customer more than one drink at a time, and the bar's top-secret system will somehow calculate the appropriate rate of consumption to keep everyone from being overserved. Butler also says that the bartenders will scan everyone's driver's license and "use a patron’s height and weight" to ensure that they're not drinking too much, too fast. (We're predicting that absolutely zero people will be excited about having to tell the bartender their weight just so they can get a third rum punch.)
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Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:00 am to Tigeralum2008
Someone brought this idea to Dave Portnoy's version of shark tank and John Taffer blew it out of the water.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:01 am to Tigeralum2008
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you get all the booze you want
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"use a patron’s height and weight" to ensure that they're not drinking too much, too fast.
Verdict: You do not get all the booze you want.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:02 am to Tigeralum2008
I think I hear the sound of a bank account being emptied by a really bad business plan.
Charging by hour is dumb to begin with
Having a password to buy a drink is going to be a bottleneck.
Having intrusive personal data on patrons in order to get a drink and then being told they are drinking too fast is going to piss people off.
Charging by hour is dumb to begin with
Having a password to buy a drink is going to be a bottleneck.
Having intrusive personal data on patrons in order to get a drink and then being told they are drinking too fast is going to piss people off.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:02 am to Tigeralum2008
Grand opening, grand closing.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:02 am to Tigeralum2008
Lawsuit waiting to happen. The club is essentially taking responsibility for how much you drink.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:03 am to Tigeralum2008
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use a patron’s height and weight" to ensure that they're not drinking too much
Fat activists, assemble!
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:03 am to Tigeralum2008
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secret system will somehow calculate the appropriate rate of consumption to keep everyone from being overserved
Truth: The secret system will actually calculate how many drinks to allow and still hit a certain margin.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:05 am to Tigeralum2008
Whoever is funding this is about to lose his arse
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:07 am to Tigeralum2008
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On Friday, Open Concept celebrated its grand opening, and it launched its, uh, concept too: for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want.
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And yeah, he has a plan for preventing his customers from rolling in, dropping a $10 bill on the bar, and spending the next 59 minutes getting absolutely shitfaced.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:07 am to Tigeralum2008
quote:Fred's has been doing this for decades.
On Friday, Open Concept celebrated its grand opening, and it launched its, uh, concept too: for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:08 am to Clames
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Grand opening, grand closing.
Exactly. Determining how much people can drink for them is not going to make anyone happy. This will be a bar at which everyone is essentially sober the whole time. No one is going to pay 10 an hour to stay sober.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:13 am to Displaced
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Fred's has been doing this for decades.
not anymoreeee
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:15 am to Displaced
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Fred's has been doing this for decades
But with Freds, it switches to pay buy the drink after everyone is nice and warmed up and ready to buy more drinks than they should, it's about getting people in the door so you can sell them drinks from 10-2.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:16 am to teke184
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Charging by hour is dumb to begin with
I am interested to see how this goes. There are many people who go to the bars to socialize and nurse a drink for hours. These people would be big money makers. You'll take a loss on the alcoholics but I think there is potential for it to work.
How it plays out in the real world will be intriguing.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:17 am to Tigeralum2008
I'd like to see them roll this business model out in Green Bay or NOLA.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:18 am to notsince98
I'm going to tell them I weigh 600 pounds.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:19 am to Tigeralum2008
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On Friday, Open Concept celebrated its grand opening, and it launched its, uh, concept too: for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want.
So... open bar? Welcome to tigerland...
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:20 am to redstick13
I bought a plate lunch yesteray. Instead of charging for say a meat and 2 sides, they just let me choose what I wanted and they way the plate lunch at the counter and charge per ounce.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 10:22 am to Tigeralum2008
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for $10 an hour, you get all the booze you want.
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