Although business at area bars was slow, bars elsewhere are prosperous. I imagine bars in Daytona were quite happy. Most bars, if open, were not entirely empty, but the smaller crowds were certainly a change of pace for managers used to the hectic school year. It wasn't a normal Friday and Saturday night. We didn't really know what to expect.
Managers hope that business after break picks up and most said they plan to encourage that.
Everyone wants to show off their tans. Spring break might have left some students without much cash flow for hitting the bars, but bar managers said they have a solution to that. It was so-so. Our crowd is pretty diverse, half college people and half people who have been coming here for 20 years. Bar managers agree that spring break is just one of the hurdles to overcome when owning a campus establishment.