Posted on 08/10/2015 9:53:36 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
New Zealand's First Booze-Free Bar Flops
The first alcohol-free bar in New Zealand has been forced to permanently close after just five weeks of trading after “no one showed up”.
Situated in Auckland, Tap Bar – which stands for The After Party – charged NZ$15 for entry and non-alcoholic drinks started from NZ$5.
The venue opened at midnight in the hope it would be a hot spot for customers rolling out of local nightclubs at 4am, but those revellers who did frequent the bar drank only water.
“We gave it a shot and Auckland drinking culture just didn’t tie in with the dry bar,” Grady Elliott, co-owner of Tap Bar, told the Otago Daily Times. “No one showed up.”
Now, the venue is applying for an alcohol licence and plans to re-open as a nightclub.
“We took it by the balls and gave it a punt,” added Elliott. “We knew it could have gone either way and we were prepared for it.
“The good thing is it’s ready to go as a licensed nightclub.”
Alcohol Health Watch director Rebecca Williams told the news site she was not surprised by the bar’s failure as 18-24-year-olds were often the ones leaving nightclubs in the early hours of the morning and that the venue had targeted revellers who would not necessarily want to stop drinking at that time.
In November last year, Sydney received its first booze-free mocktail bar, called Lentil on the Rocks.
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
Gee, you mean people don’t patronize places that don’t supply what they are looking for? That’s crazy!
Maybe it will help if they pay the wait staff $30 bucks an hour
Sometimes you just have to shake your head.
If you were ‘ready to go’ as a nightclub guys, you’d have done that and had a near sure thing instead of a PC sure fail. Such ‘Dry bars” already exist to serve your intended market with a better and proven business plan. They are called “Denny’s”.
Kinda like trying to operate a whorehouse without women...
Reopen as a tobacco bar and I bet they’ll be bringin’ in the cash.
What is government for if not coercion?
Barney Frank begs to differ.
Just me, or does that really look like one of the last places one would want to sober up in? Blegh.
HA-ha!
LOL Thanks for the chuckle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJW19nlzb3Q
“But there’s nothing so lonesome so dull or so queer
Than to stand in the back of a pub with no beer”
Did anybody see this coming because I sure didn't. /sarc
Formerly nonalcoholic bar to reopen under new name: “Projectile Vomit”
The best idea since the brimless rain hat.
HAHA...i love it!! Far Side was so wonderful..
Where’s Captain Obvious when you need him?
They should have targeted Muslims in their advertising.
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