Posted on 06/16/2016 12:03:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Over the past few years, the emergence of the cat café trend has proven that kitties and caffeine can mix. But what about crossing felines with fine wines? A planned bar in Denver is hoping to find out.
Sana Hamelin recently launched a Kickstarter for the Denver Cat Bar, which she’s billing as “America’s first cat bar!” (exclamation hers). Hamelin isn’t new to crossing cats and beverages: 18 months ago she opened the Denver Cat Company, Denver’s first cat café. With her latest project, she’s hoping to “next level” the cat café concept by creating another location with an atmosphere more akin to “a laid-back wine bar, (with great craft beer, too).”
Though a location has yet to be secured and the projected delivery date isn’t slated until March 2017, Hamelin is already outlining a number of reasons why a cat bar trumps a cat café. Beyond simply offering booze, the bigger drink margins she can make selling alcohol means the Cat Bar wouldn’t need to charge a cover fee to get in. Plus, “Cats are more active and playful at night, just like their human counterparts.” Give the kitties some catnip and you could end up with an all-out rager.
With 24 days left to go on the campaign, the Denver Cat Bar has already gotten over 100 backers, though that’s translated into only about a tenth of Hamelin’s stated $60,000 goal. If mixing animals and alcohol makes you antsy, Hamelin promises, “Kitty safety always comes first.” But more importantly, she claims that the Denver Cat Company racked up 150 adoptions in its first year and a half. If a cat bar could keep numbers like that going, it seems like it would be a big win for the cats of Denver.
Beware the lone radicalized mmooslim cat
Yes, cat fur in my beer. Just what I’ve been missing! Gack!
Holding out for a Cat Restaurant
Just look for a Chinese buffet sign...
That was pretty much every restaurant in Spain, when I lived there in the 1980s. Every bar and restaurant had a cat.
Soon with more multiculturalism Obama-style, cat-cafes will be back but have a completely different focus.
Cat bars have been around for decades and are part of America. From the KitCat club in Pottersville and the board game Easy Money to “The Cat Walk” in my own city, and numerous Pussycat Lounges across the country, the cat bar is well established. I have never gone to one, though. I have always had my cat at home.
My older cat likes to hang out with me when Im drinking beer,, a Siamese and a real talker..
Is this what pot does to your brain, that
A) This seems like a smart business venture, and
B) To customers, this seems like a great place to take your cat and hang out?
I guess I don’t smoke enough pot.
It is reminiscent of my cousin’s master plan for riches: He was going to open a “toast bar”, wherein every table had a toaster and you ordered the type of bread which was delivered to your table, and you toasted it yourself.
He was a pot smoker when he came up with that idea. I see a pattern.
The cats are strays/rescues, and the patrons are invited to adopt and take home one of the creatures. You don’t bring your cat TO the bar, you bring it home FROM the bar.
Booze and cats doesn’t sound like a very good idea though.
Don’t you make all your best decisions while half-cut? < BG >
Where’s the Kitty Haiku? You always have a clever or at least punny haiku in minutes! I’m dreadfully disappointed.
I have a friend who would probably love the toast bar. But he has never smoked pot.
I have a friend who would probably love the toast bar. But he has never smoked pot.
Don, I’ll be frank.
Wife is having a child tomorrow. C-section. Been trying for about 10 years to get this far, and have spent between $80,000 and $100,000 on fertility stuff.
It has been a roller coaster. We had many failures along the way. I am drained.
But it is my fervent goal to return to FR as the smart aleck excreter of poorly-executed haikus as soon as I can.
Oh heck, you win:
Cat café a bust
Cats not really on menu
Alf deeply saddened
You got a genuine snicker outta me for that one.
Thank you, and best of luck with the amazing, humbling, life-altering, blessed event. You’ll never sleep again (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA).
DonW
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