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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Clark" data-source="post: 80494" data-attributes="member: 2763">Re: Why do hotel bars close early?If they were concerned about it they could look back at the register records and see when transactions start slowing down... I used to live next door to a bar that I &quot;closed&quot; every night from the customer side of the counter... On weeknights the bartenders were allowed to use their discretion to close the bar any time after 9pm (county law had last call at 2am) if things were slow - in fact the owner would look at the register records and yell at the bartenders if he didn&#039;t feel the number of transactions warranted keeping the bar open after a certain time... If things were starting to slow down and the bartender wasn&#039;t ready to close up yet (and lose an hour of pay, for example) I would occasionally purchase a couple extra bar chips over the course of an hour or so to use the next day (they rang up just like a normal drink so indestinguishable on the records) in addition to my normal drinks to help the bartender make it look as though the bar were busier. (I was pretty good friends with a couple of them...) Not sure what the point of that narrative was, other than to demonstrate that it does happen elsewhere too - the number of drinks bought has to support the bartender being there those extra hours while at the same time keeping out the riff-raff (part of this is solved by only allowing hotel guests to patronize the bar, but that also depends on who the guests are any given night, sometimes the best way to force them to a different bar is just to close early. The bar I went to was known for being a shot in the dark as to whether it was open late on weeknights which typically kept the not-so-desireable loud obnoxious clientele going to other bars in the area... The owner wasn&#039;t concerned about losing their money, more concerned with keeping the regulars)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Clark, post: 80494, member: 2763"] Re: Why do hotel bars close early? If they were concerned about it they could look back at the register records and see when transactions start slowing down... I used to live next door to a bar that I "closed" every night from the customer side of the counter... On weeknights the bartenders were allowed to use their discretion to close the bar any time after 9pm (county law had last call at 2am) if things were slow - in fact the owner would look at the register records and yell at the bartenders if he didn't feel the number of transactions warranted keeping the bar open after a certain time... If things were starting to slow down and the bartender wasn't ready to close up yet (and lose an hour of pay, for example) I would occasionally purchase a couple extra bar chips over the course of an hour or so to use the next day (they rang up just like a normal drink so indestinguishable on the records) in addition to my normal drinks to help the bartender make it look as though the bar were busier. (I was pretty good friends with a couple of them...) Not sure what the point of that narrative was, other than to demonstrate that it does happen elsewhere too - the number of drinks bought has to support the bartender being there those extra hours while at the same time keeping out the riff-raff (part of this is solved by only allowing hotel guests to patronize the bar, but that also depends on who the guests are any given night, sometimes the best way to force them to a different bar is just to close early. The bar I went to was known for being a shot in the dark as to whether it was open late on weeknights which typically kept the not-so-desireable loud obnoxious clientele going to other bars in the area... The owner wasn't concerned about losing their money, more concerned with keeping the regulars) [/QUOTE]

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