1) Look Dirty. When you or your staff tend bar look dirty;
wear well worn clothing, the same clothes you wore the day before work great. If possible make sure the clothing has stains or
has grease spots. If you don’t’ have soiled
clothing anything with rips or tears will work just as well to help you lose
profits.
2) Bitch, Bitch, Bitch. Whenever possible bitch in front of customers. Any subject is good but the best topics tend
to be: spouses, taxes, local law enforcement and any state or federal politician.
Listening to bitching encourages customers
to reduce their time in your bar and drive your sales down.
3) Over Serve Customers. Watching
an individual sway back and forth in a bar stool and mumble incoherently is so
amusing and it’s intriguing to watch an over served customer head for the restroom
or walk out the door; no one knows if they are going to stumble or fall. Knowing
that you “over serve” reassures everyone they can count on you to over serve
them and once again your profits will decrease.
4) Tolerate Obnoxious Customers. (My personal favorite). By all means tolerate obnoxious customers. Allow small groups (men or women – it doesn’t
make a difference) to drop the F bomb and shout “F” once in a while. It’s charming to hear a discussion about this
F-ng thing and that F-ng thing and all the F-ng things wrong in the F-ng world
and all the things F-ng up someone’s life.
Yeap, permitting rude and repugnant behaviors will really help you lose profits.
5) Loud Juke Boxes and TVs. Blaring juke boxes and deafening TV volumes are
a must. There’s nothing better than to sip
on a drink and watch the few people who wanted the volume cranked up wiggle on
the bar floor; it’s almost as much fun as listening to a couple of loud mouths yell
at a TV screen. Cranking up the volume really
does have an impact on your sales.
6) Garbage and Trash. Try to have garbage and trash visible in your
bar. It doesn’t have to be a lot but it must
be noticeable. Examples are empty beer bottles
on games tops, rubbish in the window sills and trash building-up under the pool
table. A real plus is to never wipe down
the bar counter or table tops after a customer leaves. New arrivals love the
surprise of laying their arms or hands on a sticky surface. Two other proven profit losing techniques to
consider are never: 1) clean under the
bar’s foot rail or 2) pick up litter outside. Customer appreciate the dust balls accumulating
under the bar rail and seeing empty beer cans and trash blowing around your
parking lot and front entrance. Garbage
is such an easy way to lose revenues.
7) Repulsive Restrooms. A true favorite. Only scrub out the sinks, wipe down the mirrors
and clean the lavatories in your restrooms once a month. Also only re-paint the walls and stalls once
every two or three years. To accelerate the loss of profits have broken paper
towel dispensers and out-of-order hand dryers in the restrooms. There really is nothing better that walking
into a disgusting, graffiti marked restroom then not being able to dry your
hands. Yeah, losing bar profits can be
so easy.
Well there you have it, Eba G’s Seven (7) Guaranteed Ways To Lose Money With Your Bar or Tavern. Some of you may have already tried a few of these
ideas and know they work well. Feel free
to try the rest. If you liked them send me
an email barprofitman@gmail.com or
tweet me @EbaG2. If I get enough feedback I’ll share The 7 Wonderful Ways to Lose Regular and Longtime Customers. Rest
assured these ideas will be easy to implement as well and extremely effective.
Remember when you want to increase your Bar’s,
Tavern’s, Pub’s or Post’s profits Eba G. is here and always ready to help.
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