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re: The OT’s favorite club, owned by one of the OT’s favorite d-bags is closing
Posted on 8/31/18 at 9:24 am to facher08
Posted on 8/31/18 at 9:24 am to facher08
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Don't be so sure of that. One of the managers lives next door to me and he told me they are having financial issues and he's taking another position out of town.
I had the same surprise as many would
It's pretty solid news floating around. I was very surprised when I heard it but it came from people I'm not just going to dismiss as drunk bar talk
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Posted on 8/31/18 at 9:33 am to horsesandbulls
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real estate if i remember correctly
So he’s out of the bar scene entirely?
Posted on 8/31/18 at 9:53 am to theunknownknight
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Anyone with a working brain saw the direction of downtown 5 years ago.
Extra cop cars.
Constant fights breaking out
Huge uptick in crime
This is hyperbole. There are no constant fights in the downtown bars I go to. I've seen two in 3 1/2 years I've lived down here and those weren't even fights, just posturing and shoving. I will say, I stay out of 1913 and City Bar though. I just roll my eyes at "huge uptick in crime".
The direction 5 years ago and still today is trending up. I moved downtown right when the Mathernes opened. There have been multiple new apartment buildings spring up in that time and they are filled with a young crowd that has money.
That being said, Delgado's bars and City Bar are the worst things about living down here by far, but that is a minor inconvenience, because I just don't go to them.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:29 am to rowbear1922
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Now, Happys and MAYBE B&Ts are about the only bars I'll frequent.
You could try adding Bengal Tap Room and Driftwood into the mix.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:29 am to NIH
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It's crazy how much it's fallen off in just two years
The post college crowd just doesn't leave the Perkins corridor
Lots more culcha in the downtown nightlife over the past couple of years.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:32 am to BRIllini07
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You could try adding Bengal Tap Room and Driftwood into the mix.
I've been to both. Honestly, I just don't go downtown much, especially since I moved out of BR
. Driftwood is owned by an old fraternity brother of mine and I like it but usually don't think about it until I pass. I like the set up of BTR and have 3-4 times since it has changed names/ownership.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:46 am to LSURussian
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The OT’s favorite club, owned by one of the OT’s favorite d-bags is closing
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The downtown nightclub 1913 owned by former East Baton Rouge Metro Councilman John Delgado was set to close Thursday after nearly three years in business.
In a posting on the 1913 Facebook page, a club official said the lounge was closing after a private event.
I wonder if Delgado ever paid the back taxes he owed for his businesses. I heard he was withholding taxes from his employees paychecks and not submitting the funds to the IRS.
What a douche'
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:57 am to Godfather1
From the Business Report Daily AM snippet about what will come of the 1913 space.
Retail has what, an 100% failure rate downtown? (aside from that one men's clothing store that stuck it out through the complete dark ages of downtown)
Restaurant/bars or random offices is the only thing workable in those spaces. Retail would only have a chance if there were some mass initiative to open up 10+ stores at once and make a shopping district out of it, but one lone store opening up on an island is going to be doomed from the start.
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There’s a group of people talking about what would be the best fit there,” Watts says. “But it doesn’t have to be a club. Retail is very much in the mix.”
Retail has what, an 100% failure rate downtown? (aside from that one men's clothing store that stuck it out through the complete dark ages of downtown)
Restaurant/bars or random offices is the only thing workable in those spaces. Retail would only have a chance if there were some mass initiative to open up 10+ stores at once and make a shopping district out of it, but one lone store opening up on an island is going to be doomed from the start.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 10:59 am to Godfather1
Damn. 1913 had some hot sluts.
Oh well.
Oh well.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 11:01 am to PiscesTiger
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Wouldn't it have been funny to see 1913 on Bar Rescue and Tafford yelling at Juan.
Delgado would piss himself.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 11:01 am to BRIllini07
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that one men's clothing store that stuck it out through the complete dark ages of downtown
Bates & Thigpen. Always wanted a suit from there. Or at least a hat.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 11:47 am to facher08
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I had the same surprise as many would. That place has good rep and always full of people
Do you olive or twist defenders ever notice how it’s always 80% dudes drinking girly drinks and holding hands? I’ve only been once and that was enough
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:16 pm to Jones
Olive or Twist isn't going anywhere. Sales are 5x what they were before the expansion. We don't have financial problems, we had labor problems. Just paid a $12k audit from our Worker's Comp policy for having $200k over estimated labor costs for the policy year. And paying that was not a big deal. Sales jumped a lot, and so did costs. I was ready to take back over day to day operations, this has been my first week doing so and I'm excited to be doing it again. I'm not sure how me making tough decisions to get labor costs under control turned into tax issues and we're in financial ruins, but I'm just trying to get things back on track. Let managers go just so I could get back in control and figure out what's going on and why our profit margin has gone to shite.
For the AC concerns, it was recommended to us to have 8 tons of AC, we have 10 tons and it literally has been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do about it. It's shoulder to shoulder 3-4 nights a week and every Sunday brunch and it just can't keep up with the door constantly opening and closing. There was no room to add AC in the back of the space, but have gotten approval from property management to add 2x 3 ton AC splits to the front of the building. Hopefully, 16 tons of AC will be able to keep up. Unfortunately, it will be too little too late for this summer.
And for the last comment, even though we're typically 75% female clientele, we welcome dudes holding hands drinking girly drinks, women holding hands drinking manly drinks or singles and straight couples hanging out drinking whatever they want to drink.
For the AC concerns, it was recommended to us to have 8 tons of AC, we have 10 tons and it literally has been a nightmare trying to figure out what to do about it. It's shoulder to shoulder 3-4 nights a week and every Sunday brunch and it just can't keep up with the door constantly opening and closing. There was no room to add AC in the back of the space, but have gotten approval from property management to add 2x 3 ton AC splits to the front of the building. Hopefully, 16 tons of AC will be able to keep up. Unfortunately, it will be too little too late for this summer.
And for the last comment, even though we're typically 75% female clientele, we welcome dudes holding hands drinking girly drinks, women holding hands drinking manly drinks or singles and straight couples hanging out drinking whatever they want to drink.
This post was edited on 8/31/18 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:16 pm to el Gaucho
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Do you olive or twist defenders ever notice how it’s always 80% dudes drinking girly drinks and holding hands? I’ve only been once and that was enough
I’ve been a couple of times. Found it very ‘meh’.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:20 pm to Godfather1
Not reading link...:Michael’s Broussard?
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:24 pm to Godfather1
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Yeah. Bottle service from former strippers was never gonna be a real sustainable model in a town full of 30k-ionnaires.
I don't like all the Baton Rouge bashing but that was funny!
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:36 pm to mrjduke
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mrjduke
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:38 pm to mrjduke
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I'm not sure how me making tough decisions to get labor costs under control turned into tax issues and we're in financial ruins,
No idea but my guess is the story gets told to one person then another then another. When it was told to me, I asked how the hell could they be in tax trouble because it looks like theyre making money.
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Let managers go just so I could get back in control and figure out what's going on and why our profit margin has gone to shite.
All your bartenders drinking and giving away your alcohol
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It's shoulder to shoulder 3-4 nights a week and every Sunday brunch and it just can't keep up with the door constantly opening and closing.
You might have terrible insulation or something. Plenty of bars have their doors open all the time and dont feel like a furnace. Ive been in there recently when the crowd was thin and it was still hot as hell.
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And for the last comment, even though we're typically 75% female clientele, we welcome dudes holding hands drinking girly drinks, women holding hands drinking manly drinks or singles and straight couples hanging out drinking whatever they want to drink.
You are not 75% women clientele. No bar in this city is.
On a sidenote, the area behind the bar has slowly morphed into what looks like a tornado went through it. Bartender makes a drink and just leaves everything right there on the counter. Bottles, lemons, knife, whatever. It just looks really messy and this is supposed to be the upscale cocktail bar in the city. The bar areas in tigerland look more in order. I guess if its supposed to be controlled messy chaos, you got it down.
Other sidenote, scale down the saturday and sunday all you can drink mimosa time. That crowd and the way they act have basically pushed away a ton of people to the other bars down the street. Its a drunken mess in there that none of the regular bar patrons in the area want to deal with anymore
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:48 pm to Jones
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All your bartenders drinking and giving away your alcohol
Sounds like you're a regular. Regulars are typically the people getting free booze,although maybe not you, so if they cater more to regulars, their profit margins will still be off.
Also, if a place is packed, the bar probably will be messy.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 1:06 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat
Ive been in there enough over the past few years to know what was going on and ive been friends with enough bartenders to know what happens when the owners arent around.
Unless youre there monitoring the bartenders or you have cameras on them watching them, theyre gonna rob you blind every chance they get.
Unless youre there monitoring the bartenders or you have cameras on them watching them, theyre gonna rob you blind every chance they get.
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