[Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazzclub...

[Pete Grice]

Make it a BYOB and for food just appetizers. On receipts add a line for musician tips, in addition to waiter/waitress tips. Keep it simple.
 
Pete Grice 
Cell (973) 610-1308
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
To: Pete <pgrice2987 at aol.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazzclub...


Jim is right.

And don't forget what goes out the back door.

One simple
hint for anyone who has a business. Use clear garbage bags.

Employees will
hide a roast beef or couple bottles of whiskey    in the 
garbage bags and then
come back later and retrieve them.

As far as bartenders go, if you know 50
ways for them to steal from you. 
they will know 51.


Plan to always be
there. It is a bruital business.

-Bob



-----Original Message-----

From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:25 AM
To: Bob
Ringwald
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I
seem to have accidentally bought a 
jazzclub...

Long time ago it would have
been the mob wanting protection money ... Some
things never change ;) we don't
expect to get rich; breaking even would be
really nice though...
On Jun 3,
2015 12:23 PM, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:

> Bob Ringwald
wrote:
>
> >Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost
you to
> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don't see it
go
> out.
>
> Although Bob wrote a fairly black picture of the business
scene, if anyone
> has ever played a steady club gig over a period of time, you
will have 
> seen
> the waiters/bar staff come and go on a regular basis. It
is usually due to
> money disappearing from the til!
>
> The places that are
successful are where the boss is always there.
> Certainly not an easy life, so
I also wish you well, Gary.
>
> I agree with Bob that musicians often find it
difficult to understand the
> costs of running a club or even a festival.  It's
not just the expense of
> the band, but all the other costs of running a
business...., even having 
> to
> pay the "composer's society" (or whatever it
is called in your area) for
> the
> songs being played by the band AND
recorded music played during the rest 
> of
> the day/night.  There's the
food/liquor consumed, the help, business
> licenses, electricity, trash
pickup.....etc., etc.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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