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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I used to own a bar, it is where my username comes from as the bar name was Dissent.
First off let me tell you that owning a bar is a ridiculous amount of work and stress unless you are going to pay somebody else to run it and you don't want to do that because it is extra money out of your pocket and you're going to need every penny! I don't know what the licensing is like in Alberta but if you were to do it in Ontario you will need a liquor licence as well as a business licence and a damn good lawyer on retainer. You will have a million things to juggle just as a bar, as a pub that serves food you can double that. You have staff to look after and the type of people that work at a bar/pub is usually a student who might be more down with partying or hooking up than doing their job. You have to keep track of all your inventory so you don't run short and you absolutely have to remember long weekends and holidays or you are going to run out of product fast. You have to walk that fine line of spending on your staff, your products, your entertainment, etc.. and what you have left to put back into the business. I had my bar for three years and in the first two years I drew absolutely no salary for myself because I couldn't do it and stay afloat. Now maybe you can and maybe that pub really is a money maker, my bar was an alternative bar so I had a much more focused clientele. Regardless, I can tell you owning a bar is a 24/7 stress machine and there is always something to be done. Somehow people get it in their minds that a bar owner just hangs out at his bar and socializes, unless you are a money tycoon that can afford to pay extra people to run your establishment that is not how it works.
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I find things like this so interesting, i've always read your user name as "Dissen 'Towner"; Dissent Owner...mind blown