SPORTS BARS, WHY DO THEY FAIL?

02 Sep 2014 By Xin Hui Helder-Eng

A one-word answer that will satisfy you.

Here’s an oldie but a goodie.

Man: Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Doc: Well. Don’t.

-_-

Spike TV “Bar Rescue” host Jon Taffer stopped by SI Now, and naturally the topic of sports bars came up. The best ones, Taffer notes, recognize that sporting events only fill the bar 70 days per year so you need to have great food and emulate the energy of the game. (So that’s what’s made Hooters so successful.)

And why do some fail?

“Excuses.”

he says. “If you wake up in the morning and blame the President, Congress, Europe, the Euro, the Dollar, the market, the construction in the street, and you never blame yourself, then every morning you blame somebody else and you go do the same thing and then you fail.”