They never mean it, of course, and everybody comes around again eventually. So yeah, I m what you might call a facilitator or an enabler or one of those other cute little words. Pusher, I object to because I just stand behind the bar and pour. Nobody puts a gun to anybody s head and makes them come into my joint. You want to leave, there s the door.
Demand is steady.
While you ll probably never get rich, it s even less likely you ll ever go broke. Good times and bad, people are gonna drink. As far as how I actually make my money, live music is just another expense. My place is called Each, and like most bars it ain t real long on atmosphere. So you ve got to give people a pretense of a reason to show up besides just booze.