I want to open a pub

[R0CKnR0LLA]

So you're thinking it's a good location because it's an hour away from several major cities (AKA actual good locations)?

 

 

Hey guys you know that new bar that's an hour drive that we've never heard of?

 

Nope, never heard of it!

 

Yeah, me neither because it's nowhere around here and nobody goes there! But hey, instead of going to our normal bar down the street let's drive an hour there, get drunk then drive an hour back.

 

Sounds like a plan bro!

 

 

[Brooklyn Bully]

Christ, bars and restaurants open and close up here all the time and there are like 8 million people here. It's very, very difficult. But hey, if it's your dream go for it. You only live once. Just know you're getting in DEEP. Unless you open a cheap, swill-bar near Plaza Midwood in CLT that caters to hipsters and punks. Have some bands play to get more people in. Live in a crappy apartment to help with expenses. That's doable.

[pstall]

I agree with panda some. Make your own bourbon and distribute that junk.

Start with little to no overhead.

If I were your advisor I would say 2 things. Focus on whatn you're great at (IT stuff) and what you love. Also same with what bully said. Get partners and start an LLC etc. I think the idea has potential but it needs a plan and careful consideration.

Im itching to create more dinero as im bored and been lazy in writing a screenplay and honestly I don't think my detailed writing has been good so I have shelved it for awhile.

Good luck.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Opening a bar/restaurant is one of the biggest gambles you can make. 

 

Seems you also have no experience in either, just like the idea of it.

 

 

 

To sum it up...this is a terrible idea, and has a bout a 95% chance to fail. I may also be low-balling that number. But hey, to each his own. If you want to spend the next 5 years at least pouring money into something, working long hours, deal with the public (drunk public at that), completely learn a new field/how to run a kitchen/bar, deal with the liabilities, and don't eventually want to kill yourself, you may succeed. 

[PandaPancake]

I have a friend Roger he started a bar in his attic and it became very successful until Roger had a heart attack and he had to sell his business. The company that bought Roger out started a chain of bars called Rogers Spot and changed everything that made Rogers spot special. Roger became very angry and well lets just say he got bar back.

dont be a Roger.

[PandaPancake]

I agree with panda some. Make your own bourbon and distribute that junk.

Start with little to no overhead.

If I were your advisor I would say 2 things. Focus on whatn you're great at (IT stuff) and what you love. Also same with what bully said. Get partners and start an LLC etc. I think the idea has potential but it needs a plan and careful consideration.

Im itching to create more dinero as im bored and been lazy in writing a screenplay and honestly I don't think my detailed writing has been good so I have shelved it for awhile.

Good luck.

Bourbon might take a little while.

I would start with vodka, mead, and other spirits that don't take as long. Micro distilling will become as big as craft beers

[Ruff]

So you're thinking it's a good location because it's an hour away from several major cities (AKA actual good locations)?

 

 

Hey guys you know that new bar that's an hour drive that we've never heard of?

 

Nope, never heard of it!

 

Yeah, me neither because it's nowhere around here and nobody goes there! But hey, instead of going to our normal bar down the street let's drive an hour there, get drunk then drive an hour back.

 

Sounds like a plan bro!

 

I don't think you and I are thinking the same thing. The one thing I've learned in doing my studies about it is that you can't think of your place as a tourist destination (i.e., pulling in people from other major cities). You have to build your clientele from your own area first before that line of thinking (getting people over an hour away to come) is even an option.

[Brooklyn Bully]

And you think where you live can sustain a gastropub?

[Ruff]

And you think where you live can sustain a gastropub?

 

The area has actually seen large economic growth in the last 5 years, and is expected to see even more once the casino in Cleveland County has finished (still a few years out). 

[SmokinwithWilly]

I worked in the restaurant biz a long time. If you're ok with long days, no weekends, working every holiday, and very limited time with your family, then it may be the business for you. That's a big deal to consider before been going to concept. Not saying you can't be successful, but it's by far the hardest work environment I have been in.

[Happy Panther]

I know this is totally random, but, over the last couple of months, I've thought to myself that I really want to. I live in rutherford county, pretty much the middle of nowhere, in western North Carolina, and there's nothing like a pub with in a 45 minute drive.

I'm in the computer hardware engineering business, so I really know nothing of running a business other than te handling of finances at retail businesses growing up. However, one of my good friends is a financial analyst who works at a major banking company.

Does anyone own a small business? Does anyone here ever have dreams of owning their own business?

I own a small business.

 

If you offered to give me a pub to run in rural NC and spotted me $100k I would tell you to go fug off. Literally if you had a bag with $100k in used bills and said I just had to run a pub for 6 months I would take a swift kick in the noogies instead.

 

But seriously my bud runs a series of restaurants and bars in NC and the one that makes him the most money is the hole in the wall slinging bud lights and jalapeno poppers.

 

A pub in ruferton* would be a money sink.

 

*Is that how you say it.

[Rise of The Hive]

I'd be happy to be a visitor if you did.

[PandaPancake]

I own a small business.

If you offered to give me a pub to run in rural NC and spotted me $100k I would tell you to go fug off. Literally if you had a bag with $100k in used bills and said I just had to run a pub for 6 months I would take a swift kick in the noogies instead.

But seriously my bud runs a series of restaurants and bars in NC and the one that makes him the most money is the hole in the wall slinging bud lights and jalapeno poppers.

A pub in ruferton* would be a money sink.

*Is that how you say it.

Would you change your mind if the bag looked like this?

[Brooklyn Bully]

Casino, huh? Your best bet would be an ABC Store across the street from it.