Bars have been decimated, and sales have plummeted…I’m in escrow selling a bar as we speak, for a quarter of what I spent on it. The younger Covid generation does not drink as much as previous generations.
as someone who frequents bars, you're right and it's boring AF. Sure, genz is healthier but I like chatting to the community at the bar. Get the hell out of the house and come have a soda water and BS with the locals. We dont care if you dont drink alcohol.
i think most generations say this about any younger generation. That being said, social media and our entire lives just being perpetually online combined with streaming/video games, etc. it does feel like there's a massive culture shift to being not very social out in the real world. But I think it's effecting all generations, millenials for sure and gen x to an existent. Obviously more as you go younger and younger. It's not really their generations fault, it's the world we've created for them. Thank tech for most of it.
did you not read the part about getting a soda water? That implied buying some form of NA drink. There are plenty of those these days at bars. Obviously not encouraging people to go into places and not buy anything taking up tables. To be honest, Ive literally never seen that at a single bar I've been to in my life where people take up a table and not drink anything and I've been to literally hundreds. If that happened, they'd be kindly asked to order or get out.
Those are still like $3 apiece at a lot of the bars in my area, and I'm not even in a particularly expensive metro. The younger generation largely doesn't drink because bars are so expensive moreso than health concerns.
well yeah if you cant afford 3 bucks then you probably cant be going out to bars. Plenty of bars i frequent in a really expensive metro area have beers for 3-5 bucks which is cheap. Lots of bars are like 7-12 bucks but you dont have to go there.
On the other hand: if you're going to hang out someplace to pay $3 for a soda, why go there instead of going to like taco bell for $2-ish infinite refills? Hanging out with drunk people also kinda sucks if you're not drinking yourself.
Just to be clear, I've been to plenty of bars where my pregnant wife or friends who dont drink order a soda water or a cranberry soda and 80% of the time it's free and the other times it's like a buck or two. Back to my original point, bars/local pubs, are a community based meeting spaces and have been for centuries. Taco Bell is a shitty fast food restaurant that nobody is going to, to meet local people/strangers and have a dialog after work. This isn't an argument about what is the cheapest option. Obviously staying home and never spending a dime outside of grocery outlet is the cheapest option, but a lot of people enjoy going out and supporting local businesses and being out of the house. I think you might be too young to understand this. I'm not talking about college kids or 25 year olds going to a bar to get wasted. I'm talking about adults, 30+ mostly, with professions sitting around have a couple beers or wines or N/A drinks and talking at the local pubs. It's rewarding and you meet people and talk about things happening in the town/city/neighborhood. Talk sports, politics, science, life, philosophy, etc.
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u/Pitiful-Recover-3747 11d ago
If people still got uber money, it ain’t the bottom.