All That and Elvis Too
A Bar Room Fit for a King On the Mississippi Coast

Elvis Presley left the building a while back.

Money Makers

Beverage News

Why Fi?
The Relevance Of Online Connectivity For On-Premise Guests

We’re talking about customers of coffee houses, for example, typing away or browsing on laptops, connected to the globe via a wireless internet connection. More and more coffee shops are adding wireless internet service to stay competitive in the marketplace. So what about bars?

More Than One Way to Spin a Cat
Digital Video Mixers Inspire Bill da Cat

Mixing In Softly
Without Diluting Its Identity, Hooters Adds Spirits

For 23 years, Hooters restaurants have made a name primarily on wings and beer, with wine available on the menu as well. Scratch that. Hooters had more than made a name; it’s grown a phenomenon that now is as far reaching as including a casino resort in Las Vegas and even an airline under the Hooters emblem.

The Retro-Retro Martini
The Classic Remains Chairman of the Board

The martini got too big. It got too popular. Like a great band that you love suddenly achieving superstardom and consequently catering to the masses and leaving you — the connoisseur — out in the cold, the Martini went mainstream.

Top Holiday Party Tips
Turn Your Venue Into a Private Party Magnet During the Holidays

The month-long holiday season stretching from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day does what a zillion dollars worth of marketing and advertising cannot. It brings out the party spirit in the most confirmed of homebodies, magically transforming patrons who watch their wallets carefully for the remainder of the year into big-spending revelers.

A Visit to the Great American Beer Festival

    Great American Beer Festival began rather humbly in 1982 as a friendly beer gathering at the Harvest House Hotel, in Boulder, Colo. The event featured 40 beers, roughly the number of beers offered today at a respectable neighborhood pub, from 22 breweries.

The Category is Loaded With Flavor, Color and Profitability

    Perhaps never in the history of flavored alcohol has the launch of a single fruit flavor had so much influence on the evolution and growth of a spirit.

Spidey Fights the Bad Guys; Golden Tee Goes Unplugged

Winter Web Delights 

Blogging has taken hold in so much of the mixology world this year. As 2007 comes to a finish, Nightclub & Bar magazine wants to acknowledge a few bartenders and cocktail creation enthusiasts out there on the Web, creating new recipes and new blogs weekly.

Chefs Behind Bars
The Revolution in Handcrafted Cocktails

    Some could be arrogant, temperamental and narrow of mind, but could they ever sauté. The celebrity chef achieved prominence by relying on the sophisticated palates of Foodies, a category of human who had the gall to insist on actual tomatoes as opposed to the reddish, mealy, NAFTA-inspired debacles provided by chain restaurants and grocery stores. Foodies increased in number and finally formed a Foodie Nation to fawn over the celebrity chefs.

Three Pros Talk Video, LED Lighting And More

New schools of thought and creativity in the content being shown on the screens are part of the mix as well, as bars, able to reasonably afford multiple, if not many, screens are able to take video from being merely a corner tool for sports fans to catch the ticker or a one-or-two-screen system showing just music videos.

Smooth Operators
On-Premise Success Stories and More in Keynote Addresses At “The Show” in 2008

    Operators who attend the Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show (“The Show”) are accustomed to fascinating insights from players at different tiers of the industry. 

Energy Bomb in a Bottle
Caffeinated Schapps Line Aims to Open Eyes

John Lyons and the Sound, Light and Spectacle Of Serious Business

Looking back to club sound systems of the ‘60s and into the early ‘70s is a bit like looking back at cars from that era or earlier. Even the sportiest ones could get you were you needed to go, but by today’s standards it was a spartan ride. You might break down, and the ride would be rough.