What Are The Best Happy Hour/bar Specials That You Have Encountered?
February 12, 2010
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I am currently opening a bar and am wanting to know what YOU like and want. What are the best specials, happy hour deals, events, etc. that you have come across and really have found unique and enjoyable? What makes you want to come back time and time again?
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It’d really help to know what kind of bar you’re opening and who you’re targeting, but these are some that I remember.
$1 highballs between 5 and 6 pm. It packed the place, and most customers stayed the evening, though I was there on a Friday night and it was a student crowd. In Canada, so there wasn’t a lot of binging or drunkenness problems (fights, extreme over drinking). It did pack the place though and it was early enough to get quite a few food orders in. I think if you did it on a Wednesday and threw in a Wings Night ($5 a pound) you’d get great exposure, especially for a young crowd.
Went to something similar in Scotland, 1 pound pints (about $1.60) between 7 and 8 pm (Europeans go out later). Again packed the place and I know that many planned to go regularly and most stayed the night. Young crowd again. No problems on the two times I went.
Best “adult” happy hour I went to was at the bar in one of our nicer hotels. Free finger food from 5 to 7. It was a very nice spread. And, a free wine tasting going on as well with the wine rep there. Place was full even though the drinks were pricey.
Also, been to a lounge featuring 2 for 1 martinis from 5 to 7 pm Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a martini bar and the staff would encourage you to try two different types of martinis off their menu. Place was full, but I think they did it because people can get inimidated by martinis so they wanted to promote more of their menu so people would find on they really liked and would buy over and over. These were $9 to $12 dollar martinis poured as triples.
During hockey season in Canada, all you have to do is buy the pay-for-view event. I have friends that won’t go to a bar with multiple big screens showing sports regardless of season.
Coming again and again though, wasn’t about specials or deals. It was about atmosphere, staff service, right music at the right volume (most people don’t like to shout all night, but want their conversations muffled), location and whether it’s a place my friends wanted to go to.
The place we went to most times only had a discounted jug between 5 and 7. We often didn’t even go for the special. We went because the staff made us into regulars. They learned our names, we learned theirs, they knew our drinks and set us up when they saw us come in, they learn enough about us to make small talk and often bought us our third jug. When we left town to go to college, we found out our bartender had moved as well. We found the bar he was working at and became regulars there.
Specials bring people in, but it’s staff, atmosphere and personality that makes them reliable regulars.
The best I have been to and favorite financially would be a sushi place that has Small Sake, Pint of Beer, Appetizer and Hand Rolls all for 3 dollars each.
The most enjoyable was this place that does this classic rock happy hour where they play classic rock songs that you don’t hear often and many different kinds and whoever names the band and the song title gets a free drink. (Local bar)
Another fun happy hour was this place where the happy hour ranged from 4-8 and draft beers would be $2.50 throughout but at 5 minutes from each hour all shots would be $1.00 (well liquor obviously) up to 2 per person. So everyone would wait and chill with beers until 4:55 and order 2 shots and wait another hour. It was just exciting for those 5 minutes!
The best happy hour deal I’ve ever encountered (And by best, I mean most fun) was actually called “$2 we call it’s.”
Any bar can have doller draws, doller call-it’s, free appateizers, whatever, I liked the “$2 we call it’s” because it added a bit of spontanious fun to the afternoon, just hand your waitress/bartender some money, and get whatever drink they feel like bringing you, makes it fun to drink with friends there never knowing what you’re going to get.
From a bartender standpoint, I also like the idea (Though I’ve never worked in a club that had it) because it would give me an opportunity to explore and make different drinks and cocktails that I wouldn’t normally, as well as perfect drinks that I’ve been working on, whatever.
From a bar manager standpoint (As a head bartender at my current employment, I do a good deal of the manager duties on certain nights) I love it because it means that if I have an excess of a certain liquor, or if I’ve got a vendor pushing me, etc, then I can easily pour out good deals of it with the ‘we call it deal’ by just telling my bartenders to use more of that liquor during happy hour when it’s up to them anyway.
usually $1.00 off all drinks is great , or half off selected beer and mixed drinks , and maybe some kind of hot and cold finger foods are nice too. a nice and clean bar with friendly staff and patrons where “everybody knows your name”!!1
I like when happy hours change each day of the week. My favorite is Thursday’s burger and a beer for $8.00 at this place in Eugene called “The Vintage.” I love having early (like 4-6pm) and late (10-close) happy hour. Dollar beers are always great!
70′s – 80′s
after league bowling live dancing live band no cover
The Times are gone the 21 – 35 are all radical
NO offense the last bar I was in there were couples who’s men had dog collars on including the leash I can ignore the colored hair
the ones in new orleans
2 for 1 drinks and a free buffet
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