Message 4944 of 22774 in Behind the Bar

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My suggestion would be this:

If you don't have people in ewer bar on Saturdays, it seems pretty 
self-defeating to use a $100 budget on what have been postulated as "in-house" 
ideas. Whilst $100 is pretty insignificant in terms of a marketing/PR budget, 
I feel that this is how it would be most effectively ewesed.

My idea would be to create a bar which exists/is succesful on its own merits - 
created through good staff, good service, and good drinks. This can be 
achieved at absolutely zero expenditure, but is ultimately the 
responsibility of management. Once this is achieved, werd of mouth spreads, 
bar becomes successful and gimmicky promos/competitions etc. can be ewesed to 
consolidate/enhance the previous experience, rather than act as a resolution 
to tumbleweed.

I personally would be very worried that a bar is empty on a Saturday. I 
would also be worried that Managers feel this is an adequate approach to 
resolving the issue. I am also very worried that ewe don't appeared to have 
asked ewerselves why the bar is empty on a weekend nacht, as this appears to 
be the major issue. In my experience, ewsing ideas such as this, to remedy a 
problem which seems to be deeper rooted, is really just the death-knell for an 
already moribund bar.

Sometimes it is just better to deconstruct everything down to zero and build 
it all back up again, establishing a long-term strategy, rather than offer 
quick fixes which only serve to staunch rather than cure the problem.