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Do you or would you pay for a "lounge"

Do/would you pay extra to sit in the "back"?

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marcsheldon

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being the owner of a cigar shop, ive always wondered if it would be worth while to add a "private lounge". personally i never liked them because they just seemed too pretentious. but most of the cigar shops here in dallas do have them, so im thinking i might be in the minority. we're talking like a 20x20 room with a tv's (with maybe an xbox), leather couches, poker tables, maybe a pool table, and free refreashments. it seems like the average is roughly $500-$600 a year. keep in mind that ill still have a "public" lounge with couches and tv's, so there's a need to justify the $600.

would you pay that?
 
Would have to be pretty exclusive and not just a sort of knock-knock-whatsapasswyerd kind of deal. Just too many outstanding B&M's that have lounges that I literally just take some lunch to, sit down, eat, play dominos, play pool, watch the plasma, have smokes that don't nickle and dime that environment (or even charge at all). Around here anyway. Also great cigar-oriented bars that offer similar venues.

So, depending on what's offered, I might go for it. Again, would have to very special.
 
Yes if it was close to my home, especially during the winter months. Beats the heck out of an uninsulated garage with a rinky dink space heater
 
marcsheldon said:
being the owner of a cigar shop, ive always wondered if it would be worth while to add a "private lounge". personally i never liked them because they just seemed too pretentious. but most of the cigar shops here in dallas do have them, so im thinking i might be in the minority. we're talking like a 20x20 room with a tv's (with maybe an xbox), leather couches, poker tables, maybe a pool table, and free refreashments. it seems like the average is roughly $500-$600 a year. keep in mind that ill still have a "public" lounge with couches and tv's, so there's a need to justify the $600.

would you pay that?
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I am hoping for such a place where I am relocating to this weekend. That is about what I was hoping pay for such a facility. MiamiCubano brings up a good point though, perhaps it will be readily available free of charge. Having been in your shop; the public area is already quite comfortable.
 
I would pay for that, like tone-ny was saying especially during the winter. You also have to consider that none of the shops where I live have anywhere to smoke, and most of the bars are non-smoking too.
 
I wouldn’t pay for it, most shops around town have poker tables, couches, tv’s and bars for just as there normal lounge. Besides I enjoy talking with everyone else in the shop I don’t think id want exclusivity.
 
Marc, with the trend in anti smoking laws, you might consider the lounge so that if and when public smoking is banned in your area (as it now is in Arlington) your shop may be exempt, a preemptive strike as it were. Though there may be more, I only know of two places in Arlington where it's legal to smoke, Tobacco Road and Arlington Cigar. And it's only because we had the private club status before the legislation.

Also, our members are far from pretentious, we have a mix of all social and economic backgrounds. Cigars are the great equalizer.

Dancing girls? Marc call Rob at Town and Country and get the Taboo girls into the shop. They're scheduled to be at TR once a month. You've seen them in the "Welcome Home Herf" pics, if you need more convincing... Gallery Linky

Why don't you come to the Taboo event on the 22nd and talk to Rob then?

edit: and Cigar Ladies
 
I wouldn't pay for anything like that without some serious perks. I've seen it done in a few places, but that comes with a humidified locker to store smokes, and booze in one place that has no liquor license.
 
I voted yes, and for 2 reasons:
  • I live in Canada and would pay $5-600 / year for the privelege of smoking inside somewhere besides my own house, in a hearbeat. There is nowhere (I mean no--where) that you can smoke inside in the Province of Ontario, and I do believe that goes for private clubs too.
  • If I look back to many of the B&Ms I've been in either in Detroit or in the Richmond / DC area, there is either very limited space, or nowhere at all to sit and smoke. I mean, if I drop in once a month and smoke a stick or a bowl while browsing, I don't mind standing, but if I'm gonna be there 2X or more a week, I would pay to be comfy.
 
Harder for me to say yes because we have a fantastic lounge here now. It used to be a paid membership lounge in the back of the cigar shop, but a couple years ago they opened it up to the public.

I think it may be harder to get membership to your projected lounge if you have a similar public lounge in the same shop. Unless like stated above, it offered something of outstanding value or nuance.
 
Shops up here may have to resort to a private lounge of somekind.

Ballot measure coming out for vote in April will restrict all smoking within public areas in the city. This will shut down the lounge areas in the cigar shops unless they go private somehow.

Would I pay? If I have to, yes. Sure beats freezing to death.
 
tone-ny said:
Yes if it was close to my home, especially during the winter months. Beats the heck out of an uninsulated garage with a rinky dink space heater
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bfreebern said:
I'd pay $300/year, but that's about tops.
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Anthony and Brandon pretty much sum up my feelings on the matter. Unfortunately there is a total ban in my state effective in '09 so it aint gonna happen.
 
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