Don't keep sub par employees around because you feel bad to fire them... Pay bills on time to eliminate extra fees..... Negotiate EVERYTHING, don't accept ANY of your initial business quotes. I paid $115.00 a month for trash my first year in business, then re-negotiated and paid $80 a month my 2nd & 3 rd...
I appreciate this very much as I am someone looking to get into, and hopefully starting my niche bar in the next couple of years. I clearly have way more to learn and will network with others in the restaurant/liquor industry . Thank you for the humbling vid, very helpful !
This is a good video. Your lessons are applicable to all businesses, not just bars. I see myself re-visiting this video if and when I happen to start my own thing. Good luck!
Emma True do it and yes network! have marketing plan and execute! if you ever need help let me know I'm a self employed marketer wouldn't mind giving ya some good tips for free.
Admitting your failures is the next step to success. For some people to be truly successful they will have to learn from their failures and learn from their mistakes. You have done just that. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Thank you for sharing. I'm failing right now and your video is being very helpful. I'm trying to do more great products, but as you say, if there's no one to buy it, is useless. I will focus in my marketing. Your video has more than 3 years and it is still helping, thanks again.
Hey Marto! Good luck man it's a difficult situation to be in and we'd all love to just make great products and have customers just walk in the door and love what we do. Get marketing, get those people in the door and improve the products as you go. Being a great bar is easy if people already know that you're good, you just improve a couple of things. Trying to be a great bar when people don't know you is a very hard thing. There's a good book called "More Bums on Seats" by Howard Tinker, it's for restaurants but the ideas still work for bars. Try it out!
I want to start my own bar. I have great ideas, and I'm very passionate about beer. Craft beer. Not so much that fru fru stuff like cocktails :p. I like wine tho too 🤔🤔. I'm willing to take a financial risk doing something I love. Don't beat yourself up about it. Pull a wolf of Wall Street, get investors pooled back in, and then reform-rebuild! I believe in you!
thank you for sharing, im about to go into the bar and grill business, i own a restaurant that is outgrowing itself, and the opportunity came along with a great building downtown, this video helps me understand im going into the right business, with the right mentality, and the right business partners, thank you for your honesty.
Give this guy props for coming out and saying what it is. Wish you the best of luck for the future. Points to ad...do not sign personal guarantee on rent, make sure you negotiate rent terms with the landlord and also possible rent free period, general rule of thumb for the industry is revenue = rentX10 if you rent is 1000 you should be trying to make 10000 because with all the expenses thats one rule of thumb to follow if you want to make money, less is more....do not put 100 cocktails on the list and 25 food items, start really small and then expand as you get better at managing and controlling the costs and the wastage (you will waste alot of food/booze), give away free stuff but do not give away the expensive stuff....sounds like a no brainier but so many times we want to keep people happy and shout them a free one....do not do it with Zacapa XO lolol anyways my journey into bar land is going to start very soon...anyone in sydney want to talk compare notes? hit me up.
I'm from South Africa only seeing this video now, I'm on the Path to opening my first pub and food in an area highly populated by university students, any pointers?
Deals and cheap prices, students dont care for quality they care about quantity, have products aimed at there age rsnge, whatever drink brands students in south africa like. food wise id go for mainly fast food and a low cost menu. id make sure you have coffee and free wifi available during the day
Thanks for this, I too did exactly what you did and failed at my wine bar three years ago, I am now trying to go again and this time wainting to learn from my mistakes
***** That's never a great place to be in relying on one major day of trade but when there's not enough customers to make the other nights worthwhile it's not like opening the doors more often does anything other than cost you yeah? One thing that has worked for previous clients and friends in hospitality was offering the space as a meeting space, teaching cocktail classes, teaching hospitality training courses or alcohol tastings (like a whisky tasting) on off nights or during the day times. It doesn't take much to turn a nightclub into a space that can run business council meetings or teach tequila appreciation. Talk to your suppliers, training colleges or local business chambers and networking groups like BNI and see if there's interest in using the space. It'll put an extra couple of hundred in your pocket for almost no effort on your part just make sure you charge for it, plus you'll get more people into the venue and possibly returning on your actual trading nights. Give it a shot, worst that can happen is no one is interested in using the space in that way.
At first I thought it would be a drunken rant. His honesty should be applauded. I hope it works out for him. Flipside is, anyone who does know their stuff should try and buy a bar from someone like him.
I've worked in hospo since I was 14 (26 now), obviously I am passionate about it; it was great for living abroad and working in during University. It has great challenges - the long hours, customer facing skills and interpersonal skills, training staff and team work motivation. There is always something new you can learn. Everyone brings some new unique aspect to a business - whether it is their calm ability to work in a rush, being polite, or even the willingness to do a deep clean regularly. There should always be ways to bring in new customers and KEEP regulars coming back for what you do. You have to enjoy the venue, do the work and respect your staff and your product. You were right on the money with CONSISTENCY! Also, don't just let any one make the coffee or the drinks, they have to be experienced and professional. It's a business, not a charity.
Thanks for the video! You are going to do fine. Even the biggest success stories have a list of failures behind them. (and many in front of them) do it again!!! you can make it!!!
SilverStar40 always do,succes is not about not failing, but about revisiting the failure, to make it go your way. Wich is what winners do. Those are the same people standin on a podium one day
Great video! I own a smallish design built company that creates people's themed space. From signage to interior to marketing and menus. How would you suggest to get in front of people like you early in the process.
Thank you! The best way to get in front of people like me is to find social media groups like the Global Bartender Exchange or similar hospitality forums. Become a member and provide value around issues in the industry for at least a few months and just pay attention to what they all talk about and the problems they are facing as workers and venue owners/managers. Then you can suggest your services in response to relevant posts and I guarantee you'll have a good success rate.
You're a great man Nick. I LOVE your bar, and if I lived in Melbourne I would have been there a hell of a lot more... and probably needing a liver transplant by now. Your idea isn't bad... it just need some traction. Have you thought of trying to re-market the bar and learn from the mistakes you made? or is it too late? Can't wait till your next venture... I hope it is booze related ;-)
I'm drawing up a business plan for another bar as we speak and I am trying to get some inspiration as to ideas etc. The one thing I would say is well done on being as honest with yourself. It took you a long road to get to that point but you have taken away some development areas and some lessons that you can apply going forwards ..... stay positive. That said you basically nailed it when it comes down to spending your money on marketing rather than ploughing it all into product. That said a good way to do both at the same time and without spending money is to use what is around you. Is there a University nearby or a college, is there a student there who is looking at web or app design as part of their project? Get them to build you a bar app to mutual benefit. They get the project done and also are able to add you to there CV or Resumé. You get a free developer and you are engaging the local community. You now have an app for your bar which is a bar rather than restaurant ... so why not link up with a restaurant and offer a discount to there restaurant on the app? (They are baaically getting customer referrals from you) Now you are networking with a non-direct competitor and they can now refer you business! It is also a reason people may downlaod your app to get that discount but it's now another way you can find new customers as they need your app to get the discount. You have a football game nearby, play on your cocktail themes. Instead of going nuts with new cocktails get some old school cocktails and theme them to the football team and for god sake put a sign outside advertising that. All in there is a couple of ideas but play along those lines and you should find success. Good luck man!
My advice as an ex (successful) bar owner is go to your chosen resort out of season, their will be dozens of bars for sale, don’t rush or believe a single word the sales people tell you about the amount of custom, we have seen the same bar sold three times in one year and if in doubt do nowt.
At least you know where you've made mistakes which means that you can at least try to correct them in whatever you do next have you tried again or are you in a different industry now ?
Very brave of you to do go on and do this. It's a hard business. that is for sure. The only negative I would ad is that you kept saying how it was not good enough to be great at XXX and great at XXX, but when we fail we are not great. You may have thought you did a few things great and maybe you did, but in a business, it is all or nothing. Good luck to you on future endeavors.
Hey, if you start another bar taking all of this information on board, remember that other bars aren't a competition for you. They are your greatest advertisers, allies, and knowledge base to your bar. If you are friends with other bars, then when their customers ask for recommendations on where to go next, your name will come up. Word of mouth is the most influential form of advertising and its free. You can schedule events with them that link your bars. You can offer masterclasses to their staff if you have extensive knowledge. They can help staff your bar if you run into issues on a certain night. Most importantly, if you don't know something, more than likely they do and you can work it out together. The goal of working with another bar is to grow the market of customers together so that you're both successful rather than fighting each other for a smaller market. You make the market you work in more potentially profitable than it was originally by working together.
First of all thank you for sharing your insights, it helps. I do not like to give advice , But will still do cause i think you are my kind of guy. " Not worry too much". Success and money does not define what you are worth. Its what you can do and are capable of doing( Not past but futuristic). I think selling your bar was a good thing as now have the opportunity to do everything all over again and this time i am sure you'll have increased your chances of success . probability is defined as numerator out of denominator 1 out of 3 or 1 out of 5 . so as long as you decide i will not give up till i have done the same thing five time and you actually do it. Success is guaranteed.( sum up: "Try Try until you do not succeed". " Never Surrender"). I see you as a very passionate person. I am too. It is mostly positive. But negative side of passion is that it makes you assume things and not validate ( Risk Analysis) , What if this goes wrong, What if others do not share my passion. What if others do appreciate my passion but do not pay up. Best profession for passionate people is to be an artist.you should imagine your self as a musician in a subway station and study how many people will actually pay for music.the one that is made with real passion, emotions and to make them feel happy. A pragmatic point that people like us needs to think about in business. its first about moving money from other peoples pocket to your pocket without getting sued.everything else comes second.
Thank you for sharing this. It's very interesting. Are you still running a Bar? If so I'm sure you are very successful now. Please let me know where it is, I would love to drop by.
great talk, and i must say i admire your courage to tell your failure. but you just made another mistake by not marketing or even saying the name of your bar. this could have been a good opportunity to make people know your bar and where. after this video your bar is still anonymous, that's isn't cool. best of luck bro.
+Tracy Jackson Good catch but the sale contract was finalised shortly after this video was filmed and I couldn't do anything to negatively affect the goodwill whilst the contract was waiting to settle. Thanks for the feedback bro!
Isn't it obvious though to have signage out the front? If people don't know you're there, how are you expecting for them to walk in the door??? I don't understand this guys thinking, or lack thereof.
Kyrst O'Keefe it sounds stupid... but many places are doing it now to create the illusion of being esclusive. it's a weird trend now. I saw it first on always sunny... then I started actually seeing bars like that in real life
wow, that's... Sad. :( It's sad that bars feel like they need to do little illogical things like decreasing their visibility to feel 'exclusive'. Thanks for letting me know about this.
I think one of the failures in running a bar business is when bartenders and managers themselves are passing out drinks to their friends! I don’t know if this is their way of building networks, but for me, stealing is stealing and bad for business...
This was an interesting video. Have been experimenting with many of the same problems myself this past year. I think - it looks like I`ll be able to make it, but it has been outrageoulsy tough going. I started with no prior knowledge, knew no one, and had no money - I did it because this looked like the best and only opportunity to get something going and I knew that doing nothing would not help, so I just started #komstevje . Result - so far - Ive been living sixteen months without electricity, biking 16 kms more or less every day, and my house is on foreclosure - yet I can not quit, I don`t feel like quitting - as the first year comes to a close I understand I have learned a tremendous lot, and am able to see that the numbers are not totally red, More effort should be given on advertising, absolutely, and as you remind me, I should now after finishing writing this, set myself down with the crayons and make some sign to put on the outside wall. Great content! Thanks!
Heres one place you failed... Never ask youtubers commenters to tell you how you failed. Its like waving a steak in front of a pack of hungry wolves! LOL
As much as I appreciate your honesty and watching this video, the mistakes you've discussed evolve around basic common sense and making good business decisions. Perhaps running a bar isn't your game.
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Knowing how not to fail is some of the best information someone can give you!! Thank you!
Don't keep sub par employees around because you feel bad to fire them... Pay bills on time to eliminate extra fees..... Negotiate EVERYTHING, don't accept ANY of your initial business quotes. I paid $115.00 a month for trash my first year in business, then re-negotiated and paid $80 a month my 2nd & 3 rd...
"Fish for your damn fish with the right tackle in the right area" that is so simple yet ground breaking advice
I still watch this video once a year... and has helped me in my ice cream business... thank you Booze Baron. If you ever come to Michigan....
I appreciate this very much as I am someone looking to get into, and hopefully starting my niche bar in the next couple of years. I clearly have way more to learn and will network with others in the restaurant/liquor industry . Thank you for the humbling vid, very helpful !
This is a good video. Your lessons are applicable to all businesses, not just bars. I see myself re-visiting this video if and when I happen to start my own thing. Good luck!
Great insight! Thank you for sharing your story.
Best of luck going forward!
Thank you, for your honesty and wisdom!! Best wishes to you on your next business venture.
I'm planning to open a bar in a few years, and this was incredibly helpful. I hope you're finding success now!
Emma True do it and yes network! have marketing plan and execute! if you ever need help let me know I'm a self employed marketer wouldn't mind giving ya some good tips for free.
Me too, I'm planning on opening an oyster bar
You never opened the bar
Have you opened one yet?
I loved this - very raw and to the point - very hard to find advice that is easy and simple to understand. Hope all is well since 2013.
Admitting your failures is the next step to success. For some people to be truly successful they will have to learn from their failures and learn from their mistakes. You have done just that. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Thank you for sharing. I'm failing right now and your video is being very helpful. I'm trying to do more great products, but as you say, if there's no one to buy it, is useless. I will focus in my marketing.
Your video has more than 3 years and it is still helping, thanks again.
Hey Marto! Good luck man it's a difficult situation to be in and we'd all love to just make great products and have customers just walk in the door and love what we do. Get marketing, get those people in the door and improve the products as you go. Being a great bar is easy if people already know that you're good, you just improve a couple of things. Trying to be a great bar when people don't know you is a very hard thing.
There's a good book called "More Bums on Seats" by Howard Tinker, it's for restaurants but the ideas still work for bars. Try it out!
Marto Martillos how's it been the last 3 months ? what's working for you now?
This is really great advice. It does not make any sense to have amazing products and zero customers .
I want to start my own bar. I have great ideas, and I'm very passionate about beer. Craft beer. Not so much that fru fru stuff like cocktails :p. I like wine tho too 🤔🤔. I'm willing to take a financial risk doing something I love. Don't beat yourself up about it. Pull a wolf of Wall Street, get investors pooled back in, and then reform-rebuild! I believe in you!
I've been contemplating opening a bar for months now, I am SO grateful you posted this...
I've just realised this is 8 years old but the advice is still very much applicable to today's world
Thanks for stepping on your pride and sharing your story with us.
Humility is the greatest of virtues… Now you have the knowledge to succeed. At least you did do it… Most people don’t even try… Keep your head up!
thank you for sharing, im about to go into the bar and grill business, i own a restaurant that is outgrowing itself, and the opportunity came along with a great building downtown, this video helps me understand im going into the right business, with the right mentality, and the right business partners, thank you for your honesty.
Cristobal Orellana How's it coming along?
Give this guy props for coming out and saying what it is. Wish you the best of luck for the future. Points to ad...do not sign personal guarantee on rent, make sure you negotiate rent terms with the landlord and also possible rent free period, general rule of thumb for the industry is revenue = rentX10 if you rent is 1000 you should be trying to make 10000 because with all the expenses thats one rule of thumb to follow if you want to make money, less is more....do not put 100 cocktails on the list and 25 food items, start really small and then expand as you get better at managing and controlling the costs and the wastage (you will waste alot of food/booze), give away free stuff but do not give away the expensive stuff....sounds like a no brainier but so many times we want to keep people happy and shout them a free one....do not do it with Zacapa XO lolol anyways my journey into bar land is going to start very soon...anyone in sydney want to talk compare notes? hit me up.
Good Video Nick...... I will show this to a few other folk before they fail, well done on being honest, I know it was probably good therapy too....
I'm from South Africa only seeing this video now, I'm on the Path to opening my first pub and food in an area highly populated by university students, any pointers?
Deals and cheap prices, students dont care for quality they care about quantity, have products aimed at there age rsnge, whatever drink brands students in south africa like.
food wise id go for mainly fast food and a low cost menu.
id make sure you have coffee and free wifi available during the day
damn good-insightful talk. Failure is all part of the success process; you brought up some great points.
Thanks for this, I too did exactly what you did and failed at my wine bar three years ago, I am now trying to go again and this time wainting to learn from my mistakes
***** I hope it is working out for you! It's a tough industry so if you ever want to talk about it just reply and hit me up.
Hey thank you. Been a hard winter. Night club is great and only one night. But other 3days dead. So it is like waiting on one day.
***** That's never a great place to be in relying on one major day of trade but when there's not enough customers to make the other nights worthwhile it's not like opening the doors more often does anything other than cost you yeah?
One thing that has worked for previous clients and friends in hospitality was offering the space as a meeting space, teaching cocktail classes, teaching hospitality training courses or alcohol tastings (like a whisky tasting) on off nights or during the day times. It doesn't take much to turn a nightclub into a space that can run business council meetings or teach tequila appreciation.
Talk to your suppliers, training colleges or local business chambers and networking groups like BNI and see if there's interest in using the space. It'll put an extra couple of hundred in your pocket for almost no effort on your part just make sure you charge for it, plus you'll get more people into the venue and possibly returning on your actual trading nights.
Give it a shot, worst that can happen is no one is interested in using the space in that way.
thats awesome, I will take that advice, its more of a summer bar so its just getting through winter has been hard
At first I thought it would be a drunken rant.
His honesty should be applauded. I hope it works out for him.
Flipside is, anyone who does know their stuff should try and buy a bar from someone like him.
I've worked in hospo since I was 14 (26 now), obviously I am passionate about it; it was great for living abroad and working in during University. It has great challenges - the long hours, customer facing skills and interpersonal skills, training staff and team work motivation. There is always something new you can learn. Everyone brings some new unique aspect to a business - whether it is their calm ability to work in a rush, being polite, or even the willingness to do a deep clean regularly. There should always be ways to bring in new customers and KEEP regulars coming back for what you do. You have to enjoy the venue, do the work and respect your staff and your product. You were right on the money with CONSISTENCY! Also, don't just let any one make the coffee or the drinks, they have to be experienced and professional. It's a business, not a charity.
I’m planning to open a small cocktail bar in Philippines when i get back home. Thanks for sharing your experiences
You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your experience.
next year Im planning to have my own too.
nice one Nick. love the video. i wish you all the best
Definitely some good insight on things to think about when going into business, thanks for the honest video.
Thanks for the video! You are going to do fine. Even the biggest success stories have a list of failures behind them. (and many in front of them) do it again!!! you can make it!!!
SilverStar40 always do,succes is not about not failing, but about revisiting the failure, to make it go your way. Wich is what winners do.
Those are the same people standin on a podium one day
Good of you to share that. As helpful as the flipside stories.
Great video. What is the name of it.. if u still have it? Where is it? I would check it out just by how honest ur video is.
hi Nick .. thnks very much for sharing ur experience.. jst wanted to ask that are bars busy during the day times or not??
Great video! I own a smallish design built company that creates people's themed space. From signage to interior to marketing and menus. How would you suggest to get in front of people like you early in the process.
Thank you! The best way to get in front of people like me is to find social media groups like the Global Bartender Exchange or similar hospitality forums. Become a member and provide value around issues in the industry for at least a few months and just pay attention to what they all talk about and the problems they are facing as workers and venue owners/managers. Then you can suggest your services in response to relevant posts and I guarantee you'll have a good success rate.
omg i love you 😂😂 i learned alot thankyou so much.. hope youd listen to your own advice too ❤️
You're a great man Nick. I LOVE your bar, and if I lived in Melbourne I would have been there a hell of a lot more... and probably needing a liver transplant by now.
Your idea isn't bad... it just need some traction. Have you thought of trying to re-market the bar and learn from the mistakes you made? or is it too late?
Can't wait till your next venture... I hope it is booze related ;-)
I'm drawing up a business plan for another bar as we speak and I am trying to get some inspiration as to ideas etc. The one thing I would say is well done on being as honest with yourself. It took you a long road to get to that point but you have taken away some development areas and some lessons that you can apply going forwards ..... stay positive.
That said you basically nailed it when it comes down to spending your money on marketing rather than ploughing it all into product. That said a good way to do both at the same time and without spending money is to use what is around you. Is there a University nearby or a college, is there a student there who is looking at web or app design as part of their project? Get them to build you a bar app to mutual benefit. They get the project done and also are able to add you to there CV or Resumé. You get a free developer and you are engaging the local community. You now have an app for your bar which is a bar rather than restaurant ... so why not link up with a restaurant and offer a discount to there restaurant on the app? (They are baaically getting customer referrals from you) Now you are networking with a non-direct competitor and they can now refer you business! It is also a reason people may downlaod your app to get that discount but it's now another way you can find new customers as they need your app to get the discount.
You have a football game nearby, play on your cocktail themes. Instead of going nuts with new cocktails get some old school cocktails and theme them to the football team and for god sake put a sign outside advertising that.
All in there is a couple of ideas but play along those lines and you should find success. Good luck man!
My advice as an ex (successful) bar owner is go to your chosen resort out of season, their will be dozens of bars for sale, don’t rush or believe a single word the sales people tell you about the amount of custom, we have seen the same bar sold three times in one year and if in doubt do nowt.
At least you know where you've made mistakes which means that you can at least try to correct them in whatever you do next have you tried again or are you in a different industry now ?
half bitterness half great insight, hope it gets better brother
Very brave of you to do go on and do this. It's a hard business. that is for sure. The only negative I would ad is that you kept saying how it was not good enough to be great at XXX and great at XXX, but when we fail we are not great. You may have thought you did a few things great and maybe you did, but in a business, it is all or nothing. Good luck to you on future endeavors.
Hey, if you start another bar taking all of this information on board, remember that other bars aren't a competition for you. They are your greatest advertisers, allies, and knowledge base to your bar. If you are friends with other bars, then when their customers ask for recommendations on where to go next, your name will come up. Word of mouth is the most influential form of advertising and its free. You can schedule events with them that link your bars. You can offer masterclasses to their staff if you have extensive knowledge. They can help staff your bar if you run into issues on a certain night. Most importantly, if you don't know something, more than likely they do and you can work it out together. The goal of working with another bar is to grow the market of customers together so that you're both successful rather than fighting each other for a smaller market. You make the market you work in more potentially profitable than it was originally by working together.
Nice tips...see you in Aruba my new beach bar
..thank you for sharing! thats very honest and very structured!
how to start my own lounge business. this does help me a lot.
First of all thank you for sharing your insights, it helps. I do not like to give advice , But will still do cause i think you are my kind of guy. " Not worry too much". Success and money does not define what you are worth. Its what you can do and are capable of doing( Not past but futuristic). I think selling your bar was a good thing as now have the opportunity to do everything all over again and this time i am sure you'll have increased your chances of success . probability is defined as numerator out of denominator 1 out of 3 or 1 out of 5 . so as long as you decide i will not give up till i have done the same thing five time and you actually do it. Success is guaranteed.( sum up: "Try Try until you do not succeed". " Never Surrender").
I see you as a very passionate person. I am too. It is mostly positive. But negative side of passion is that it makes you assume things and not validate ( Risk Analysis) , What if this goes wrong, What if others do not share my passion. What if others do appreciate my passion but do not pay up. Best profession for passionate people is to be an artist.you should imagine your self as a musician in a subway station and study how many people will actually pay for music.the one that is made with real passion, emotions and to make them feel happy.
A pragmatic point that people like us needs to think about in business. its first about moving money from other peoples pocket to your pocket without getting sued.everything else comes second.
Thank you fo sharing,,still struggling to get it right.sweetxcape,that's the name how does it it sound .
Love it. love you. Fabulous.
Thank you for sharing this. It's very interesting. Are you still running a Bar? If so I'm sure you are very successful now. Please let me know where it is, I would love to drop by.
Interesting... Also check out the new bar design tool buildabarapp if you're thinking about starting your own bar.
great talk, and i must say i admire your courage to tell your failure. but you just made another mistake by not marketing or even saying the name of your bar. this could have been a good opportunity to make people know your bar and where. after this video your bar is still anonymous, that's isn't cool. best of luck bro.
+Tracy Jackson Good catch but the sale contract was finalised shortly after this video was filmed and I couldn't do anything to negatively affect the goodwill whilst the contract was waiting to settle. Thanks for the feedback bro!
Beauty_Odion already said what I was thinking. I am sorry for your loss, and I wish you "The Booze Baron" more success in the future.
Beauty_ Odion z
This is a great video; best wishes.
What happened after all this? Do you have a new bar now?
Thanks for sharing, this is very useful indeed!
haha! At least you can admit it mate..... discussing is progressing. I want to own a bar and its interesting to see vids like this example, thanks.
Thanks a lot brother....!!! Thanks for sharing ur experience..... it's really helpful for me....
Joy Ghosh Glad it helped
Hay, thanks- I'm thinking of starting a bar...
Isn't it obvious though to have signage out the front? If people don't know you're there, how are you expecting for them to walk in the door??? I don't understand this guys thinking, or lack thereof.
Kyrst O'Keefe it sounds stupid... but many places are doing it now to create the illusion of being esclusive. it's a weird trend now. I saw it first on always sunny... then I started actually seeing bars like that in real life
wow, that's... Sad. :( It's sad that bars feel like they need to do little illogical things like decreasing their visibility to feel 'exclusive'. Thanks for letting me know about this.
thanks for sharing, best of luck...
Very nice article...
I think one of the failures in running a bar business is when bartenders and managers themselves are passing out drinks to their friends! I don’t know if this is their way of building networks, but for me, stealing is stealing and bad for business...
Free drinks oil the gears. I always alot 100 free drinks a month.
Great video! I hope you got back on your feet :)
Lovesss this!
thanks you for the advice! :))))
Consistency is the main key !!
very insightful
Too late my friend but I will be doing more and more things with booze! Plus I may even open another bar again with better systems now
Whats the name of your bar?
what's the name of your bar?
What the name of your bar?
Whats the name of your bar?
I love this, thank you so much
Thank you for this video.
You are awesome!
Dude thank you so much!
lol best of luck to you brother
Awesome video
awesome video
what's the name of your bar? lol
Thank you
Thank you !
Good man, i got a light from you
dude u scared me, how u r doing now?
This was an interesting video. Have been experimenting with many of the same problems myself this past year. I think - it looks like I`ll be able to make it, but it has been outrageoulsy tough going.
I started with no prior knowledge, knew no one, and had no money - I did it because this looked like the best and only opportunity to get something going and I knew that doing nothing would not help, so I just started #komstevje
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Result - so far - Ive been living sixteen months without electricity, biking 16 kms more or less every day, and my house is on foreclosure - yet I can not quit, I don`t feel like quitting - as the first year comes to a close I understand I have learned a tremendous lot, and am able to see that the numbers are not totally red, More effort should be given on advertising, absolutely, and as you remind me, I should now after finishing writing this, set myself down with the crayons and make some sign to put on the outside wall.
Great content! Thanks!
Heres one place you failed... Never ask youtubers commenters to tell you how you failed. Its like waving a steak in front of a pack of hungry wolves! LOL
If he failed so hard at so many aspects what makes you think this is good advice
Poor guy
thank you !!!
no matter 'correct' you are, *mr market is **_always_** right :-\*
i was the 888 like
:D how not to fail ? Dont be dumb as bricks :D
As much as I appreciate your honesty and watching this video, the mistakes you've discussed evolve around basic common sense and making good business decisions. Perhaps running a bar isn't your game.
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Thank you