Lots and lots of
for me in the old days at all star. Good times for sure.
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You have my vote, but anice cool place to relax and feel normal, a place you can bring local clients or a bunch of guys to play pool and go out.
the most relaxed place I have foun din CR is the Big dogs near santa ana across from the Auto Mercado , decent pool tables, nice service, the occasianal hooker, but locals bring their wifes and girlfriends their. They do hav ethe wet t contests sometimes and several other evetns to satisfy the fun side.
the most relaxed place I have foun din CR is the Big dogs near santa ana across from the Auto Mercado , decent pool tables, nice service, the occasianal hooker, but locals bring their wifes and girlfriends their. They do hav ethe wet t contests sometimes and several other evetns to satisfy the fun side.
One of the most important things about a sportsbar of that type in Costa Rica is advertising to the people that watch the U.S. sports. People that work in the sportsbooks often get hooked into watching as well as wagering on all the American sports. I know that the first thing I think about when I get out of work is getting to a bar with a nice-sized screen that will have the game on. Doesn't matter where it is, I need to watch my wager going on in real time. And I know various people that feel the same way. One thing that Touch bar in San Pedro had real success with and gave them really good turn-outs was offering a promotion to sportsbook clerks for Monday night football. Many people would go to see the game, many would accompany those people to get the promotion, and then a lot of other people would go simply because that's where all their friends from work were going to be. When the game was over, they would put music on. On a dead Monday night that bar would be one of the few places that would be pretty full. Advertise at the sportsbooks.
Touch bar was a financial disaster literally the day it opened. They were trying to sell it or rent it one week after the doors opened. Expenses were way too high and the mall was charging outrageous rent. Just because there is a crowd in a place (one night a week, in this case) doesn't mean that the place is making a profit. They're lucky if the average customer spent $4 in there for those football games.
American, have you been to touch bar on a Saturday night or for the events they promote????? If that's a bar that has finanacial problems we have a very different idea of what financial problems are. That joint gets packed, you just have to check the live broadcast Saturday night on VMLatino
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Is that the one where Laura Rodriguez is there and the place is full of people dancing and no one drinking? The average customer is probably spending 1000 colones in there. The average Ticos just can't go out and spend $50 a weekend partying. The numbers just aren't there. For some reason, everyone seems to think they can make a bar or a restaurant work down there in CR. Mark my words though...No one is becoming rich through Touch Bar. The bar business in CR looks FAR more profitable from the outside looking in. The only way to become a millionaire in the bar business in CR is if you started as a billionaire.
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Is that the one where Laura Rodriguez is there and the place is full of people dancing and no one drinking? The average customer is probably spending 1000 colones in there. The average Ticos just can't go out and spend $50 a weekend partying. The numbers just aren't there. For some reason, everyone seems to think they can make a bar or a restaurant work down there in CR. Mark my words though...No one is becoming rich through Touch Bar. The bar business in CR looks FAR more profitable from the outside looking in. The only way to become a millionaire in the bar business in CR is if you started as a billionaire.
You guys might be faked out as to the start up cost of opening the kinds of bars you're talking about. Remodeling, legal fees, bribes and payoffs to Johnny Araya and the Municipalidad and ICT (you're insane if you think you can open a bar in CR without dishing out bribes to government officials), furniture, sound equipment, lights, bar equipment, stocking the place, advertising, outdoor signs, deposits, etc. would put the start up costs at $100,000 to $200,000 maybe more. And those figures don't include the blood, sweat and tears and 15 hour workdays you are going to put into it. Remember that a lot of the expenses are higher in CR than they would be in the states because of high tariffs (and bribes). There just are better things to do with 100 or 200 dimes than to open a bar where people are going to come in and pay $1.25 for a beer.
Whether the Taberna is making "tons" of cash or not is irrelevant to what I'm saying. The bar business in CR is not something one should jump into because they think it will make a ton of cash and be a great time. The few sucessful bars in CR are in great locations and are run by top-notch professionals in that business. The bar business, along with the restaurant business, are probably the toughest in CR to succeed in. It's like laying 4 to 1 on a coin flip...heads you win 1, tails you lose 4.
I agree with American (twice in one post) about TOUCH BAR. The place gets pack only once or maybe twice a week usually on Friday and Saturday night, but like it's just full of kids mainly 18-23 dancing all night and maybe at the end of the night before they go home they will drink a coke or at the most a beer, so YES their average money spent is less than $5...
On the other hand La Cantina in Escazu makes hell of out lot more, since the market they are after is age 25-40...people who actually can drink 8-12 beers and that have money to buy woman’s drink, plus theirs NO DANCING just drinking.
On the other hand La Cantina in Escazu makes hell of out lot more, since the market they are after is age 25-40...people who actually can drink 8-12 beers and that have money to buy woman’s drink, plus theirs NO DANCING just drinking.
