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What would lure you back to the bars?

abouttobebanned

Aside from the obvious one, cheaper drink...

Pubs are not as busy as they were 10 & 20 years ago and most of them are empty midweek...so what would make you want to go to them again? There's a pub where I live that runs a board games night every wednesday night...i think that's a great idea personally... but what would work for you?

Bring back quiz nights?
Poker?
Bands?
Karaoke?

This is not a bash the pub and club industry industry thread.....instead i'd like you to ask yourselves 2 questions...

What would make me want to go out to a pub more regularly...
If I owned a bar what would I do to get the punters in?

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marcsignal

DRRRRIIIIINNNNKKK !!!

galwayrush

abouttobebanned wrote: »

We may have the perfect pub after a few threads. Just goes to show how hard it is for the publican...some want music the heavier the better...some want quiet music...some don't want any music at all....

Solution. Muli-level pubs.:cool: A room for all tastes, or personal mood.

Colonel Sanders

abouttobebanned wrote: »

some want music the heavier the better...some want quiet music...some don't want any music at all....

It depends, if I know there's band playing then I'll either go for the band or aviod the place because of the band. If I'm going for a few pints with friends the last thing I want to hear is music blarring so that I can't hear what the person next to me is saying

abouttobebanned

We may have the perfect pub after a few threads. Just goes to show how hard it is for the publican...some want music the heavier the better...some want quiet music...some don't want any music at all....

Colonel Sanders

not turning up the music to an idiotic level on the dot of 8pm. I have often walked out as soon as this has happened.

Bar staff who actually serve customers rather than just pose and try to chat up female customers

More over 25s bars. I hate places where there are gangs of screaming 18 year old drinking shots, roaring and shouting and making a fool of themsleves at 9pm

MIN2511

1. Poker
2. Poker
3. Cheap booze
4. More men!

The Mad Hatter

Quieter music or no music.

niceirishfella

Cant Believe no one has said this ;

FREE BEER!

abouttobebanned

can someone clear up the legalities of the cheapest that bars can sell drink at?

Koyasan

I got the last two years of the decent pub scene, and predicted and watched them go downhill from then to now. A few weeks back I was in Belfast and was reminded of those last two years of glory.

What happened?

Michael MacDowell.

All of the regulations he introduced should be repealed. Pubs could then make selected drinks cheaper at specified times.

But the primary reasons we started to stay away from pubs was that we felt offended by the notion of paying to enter (especially a pub such as Whelans after 10:30) and offended by the prices charged.

Jane Doh!

Dart boards, pool tables, gambling, TV (any kinda sport) and lap dancing poles.....

Boys n their toys

If Carlsburg did pubs.........

invincibleirish

Allow people smoke Weed.

Inside. No tobacco of course. That gives the barstaff cancer.

abitlonely

yore ma?

and cheap pints. That price freeze thing is totally illegal

arybvtcw0eolkf

Well I'll tell you what I love about my local.

Its got local, Irish bar staff!.

The bar staff are 'proper' bar staff, ie they've done apprenticeships and made bartending a career, as a result the owner doesn't need to employ doorstaff as the lads behind the bar can call the shots on who is or isn't served.

They also know the craic and how to have it.

There's a dart board too, and a TV with the remote left on the bar!. And get this, a shop too!.

It also serves everyone if your old enough to drink a pint, so I drink in the company of farm labourers, members of the travelling community to business people to local 'heads' and in over ten years there I haven't seen one row.

sunnyjim

Karoke - Tacky
Darts - Hell yeah
pool table if it could be somewhere appropriate? - Sweet, but try not charging 2 euro a game!

Lower prices? Well, that's the reason we don't go to pubs anymore!

JohnCleary

Depends on the type of pub:

Rural - Freen mini-bus at the start/end of the night. This could work out a real winner for the publican as they can say "Pick up at XX only, Drop of at XX only (end of the night)" which means the punter will stay in the pub for the whole night, but will feel they are getting a good deal as their transport is sorted

Quiet/Relaxed pubs - Free finger food

Disco-pubs (Can't believe I said that word) - As said loads of times, cheaper drinks

Jane Doh!

Was in a Pub in Cork a few years back, downstairs of the family home tranformed into a cosy pub. Pool table, open fire and locals can help themselves to a pint cause the bar staff are drinking with them. Normally what you would see in the country.

We need more of them......:)

super_furry

A decent pint of beer for €4 in a nice pub.

_JOE_

Fully agree with the lack of pool tables/dart boards. You rarely see these in pubs today, and even when you do, they all seem to be "private members only"...

themadchef

You say "aside from the obvious one" but this really is the reason pubs are empty. If pints were €2 a pop do you think the pubs would be empty mid week?

People don't need excuses to go to the pub. Poker, darts, football on the telly, the after sports beers. People would stay longer if it was cheaper too.

Even if they put pole dancers in every bar in country 7 nights a week. Pubs would probably be busier all right, but, people wouldn't have any more money to spend.

the_syco

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Bands?
Karaoke?

The former gains people, but it has to be a regular thing. The latter drives people away; only the friends and family of the person singing comes.

=-=

Pints costing €3 or less. I'm going drinking in a mates later. €20 for the bottle. That would be 3 shots in the pub. The universal €4 a shot is shooting themselves in the foot.

red_ice

reasonably priced drink

Sleepy

Couple of the obvious factors as to why the pubs are quieter:

pints being relatively more expensive
cost of a taxi home
busier "more professional" work environments where hangovers aren't acceptable

The main reasons for me, however would be the change in geography/demographics - living the far side of the country from most of my friends makes me far less likely to go to the local for a couple mid-week. Even if I lived at home, with house prices forcing young people to move out of the areas they grew up in, my friends most likely wouldn't be living close enough to me for it to be practical for us to meet in the local for a jar of an evening.

PCPhoto

get rid of the element of scum in pubs and the drunken a**holes.

publicans (due to financial problems) will allow anyone into a pub now and will keep serving them alcohol as long as they can afford to keep paying and don't cause hassle.

i agree with another poster asking for darts/pool tables to be brought back into pubs, for me the only problem with that is .... you get people staying on the tables for the whole night - not allowing anyone else to play.

a decent pub has regulars and takes care of their regulars, couple of free drinks during the night always encourages people back or a free taxi service home, let them know that the management of the pub respects the customers and wants to reward them for their custom.

just my opinions

DenMan

Poker wouldn't be a good idea, especially with alcohol involved. Definitely need band nights (louder the better Rock/Metal)

People just couldn't be bothered during the week anymore especially with the demands of work, family and the outrageous prices. We are getting more like the Americans/Canadians and having house parties, taking alcohol home etc.

Tom65

Aside from cheaper drink, I think transport costs. It costs me €5 to get the Dart to a pub (return), and the Dart is a crap service that stops at half 11. If I could stay a bit longer in the pub, without having to pay money for a taxi, I'd probably go more often.

Bijoux

Jane Doh! wrote: »

Would that not be a different type of bar?

All of a sudden, the little old-man pub down the road is apperaing in a new light.....;)

Biggins

Bars that have children STRICLTY NOT allowed in (this is for the childrens sake - not the adults).
Bars where ALL gambling machines are relocated to the nearist skip.

Jane Doh!

Nolanger wrote: »

Men-only bars.

Would that not be a different type of bar?

abouttobebanned

There are so many laws against drinks promotions though....it seems that the bar's hands are tied...but I agree, and it's why i didn't want the thread to be all about it, the drink prices should be reduced immediately. People appreciate that bars are trying to make money and we're also paying for an atmosphere...but we shouldn't be paying more than €4 for a pint of lager. I think if all bars made the decision to cut prices together...then it might be feasible.