Talk:Bar (establishment)

message: "In the UK 'bar' used to mean a wine bar, but now, 'Style Bars', trendy and generally high-quality drinking establishments are more common. However the main type of establishment selling alcohol for consumption on the premises is the public house or pub. Pubs are not usually referred to as bars, though the distinction is becoming blurred."
This doesn't seem entirely right, as i know for a fact that bars withing colleges are always refered to as "bars" even when they are otherwise indistinguishable from a pub. I would guess (although I don't know) that the same is the case with bars within other sors of institutions, such as hotels and resteraunts, with "pub" being a more specific term. Snowboardpunk
:That's accurate. A pub is a freestanding establishment while a 'bar' can either be a specific room within a pub, or a drink-selling establishment in something else such as a hotel, a conference centre, a students union etc. etc.Vortinax (talk) 07:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely a "pub" (public house) is a building in which alcoholic drinks are sold. A "bar" is either a room where alcoholic drinks are consumed (this may or may not be a standalone establishment), or an item of furniture from which such drinks are served. A pub may contain one or more bars. 217.155.20.163 23:36, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

text: True and does not contradict the foregoing.Vortinax (talk) 18:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bar vs Pub

message: Currently, topless bar redirects to bar (establishment), whereas titty bar redirects to strip club. I'm curious as to the difference. 217.155.20.163 23:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the difference between a "topless bar" and a "titty bar"? 

message: This page used to say
: A bar is a business that sells alcoholic beverages ….
While this is basically true, it leaves out things like temperance bars and juice bars, making statements like, "A temperance bar is a bar that does not sell alcoholic beverages.", strictly speaking, false.
I have changed this to read
: A bar is a business that sells drinks, typically alcoholic beverages, ….
Is there a better way to say this? I can't think of one. Tugbug 20:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think how you left it is ok. HeffeQue 16:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcohol? 

message: I was hoping this article would expound a bit on the concept of a video bar.  They seem to be popular in American gay bars, but more details and context would be helpful. -- Beland 02:46, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video bar 

message: uhm...
"Often frequently populated by drunks the most well known of which is Luke menner who is often seen there before operating on the elderly and disabled. Menner, a sophomore at Indiana Wesleyan University, is also known to have many girlish tendencies. Many modern bars have recently added anti-Luke protocol to their company policies."
Somehow I doubt that one can be backed up with any evidence.  I'm going to go ahead and remove that.
[[[User:Mad Gouki|Mad Gouki]] 04:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: Anyone interesting in working for a while on improving the pub articles? Sorting out the stubs. Organising the categories. Creating a Pub InfoBox. Drawing up some kind of notability guideline, and checking that pub articles are meeting the guidelines. Drawing up a Style guideline. Working on the editing of the main articles - Public house,List of public houses in the United Kingdom, Bar (establishment), etc. Considering how to integrate all the drinking establishments around the globe. Perhaps create a new parent article: Drinking establishment. I've started working on the pub articles, but I would really like to work with other people to bounce ideas and keep within consensus. Check in at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer#Pub_Task_Force, or respond here or drop a message on my talkheader. Cheers! SilkTork *YES! 18:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pub Task Force

message: The Fictional bars list was tagged for cleanup per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Guidelines#Lists and Wikipedia:Embedded list. Embedded lists within articles are discouraged. A list of fictional bars could stretch to several thousand entries, and would be of little value. I have removed it; however, someone may consider if they can make a paragraph of prose about fictional bars, which is also supported by reliable sources and is not original research. SilkTork *YES! 18:39, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional bars

message: Hi,
So this page has an image of Jimmy Wales at a bar, and I'm kind of wondering why. The image doesn't really add anything to the article, and it just seems odd to me. It kind of feels like it is there as sort of a nod to fellow Wikipedians, with no real purpose for the actual audience. Would there be any opposition to it being removed, or switched to something more relevant?--Gordonrox24 | Talk 17:23, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimmy wales 

message: Early bars frequently didn't have seats.  There was a wooden or metal rail installed along one wall at about elbow-heighth, and the standing patrons leaned against this rail as they drank.  The rail is what the term "bar" originally referred to in this context. As drinking establishments evolved, seats were added, then tables, then a counter-top in place of the rail, which many establishments nonetheless retained as a foot-rail against the counter.  the term "bar" eventually transferred from the rail, to the counter, to the establishment itself.  
But it is the rail that was originally the "bar", and not the counter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 23:35, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errata: Bar / Bar Rail 

message: I don't think the concept of Ouzeri is independently notable - instead I think it could be discussed here under a section dedicated to Greece. Thoughts? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Ouzeri]] 

message: Is there a distinct difference between Bars and Pubs? this is something that is being discussed at c:Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/04/Category:Pubs. Crouch, Swale (talk)  06:33, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference 

message: I removed the folowing section from the article because the cited source does not support it:
The two occurrences of "bar" that I see in the source are references to the "bar" in court, not to a "bar" in a drinking establishment. - Donald Albury 00:12, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early uise of "bar" 

message: Spain is the country with the highest ratio of bars/population with almost six bars per thousand inhabitants, three times UK's ratio and four times Germany's, and it alone has double the number of bars than the oldest of the 28 members of the European Union.
I'm not sure what is meant by the phrase "double the number of bars than the oldest of the 28 members of the European Union".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Errando (talk • contribs) 22:36, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of bars in Spain 

message: "In most places, bars are prohibited from selling alcoholic beverages to go, and this makes them clearly different from liquor stores."
This statement is now out-of-date, at least in NYS, where one can not go into bars, but can only purchase drinks to-go and must refrain from loitering outside to consume what one has purchased. WordwizardW (talk) 09:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States in the time of COVID 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

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