Just for fun: With Bates Gun shop now sold, what would the forum like to see on the Market Square?

tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I'd love it if they could, be great to sip a cider watching the chuggers get told to **** off every few minutes. Would be the perfect addition to the farmers market!
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
tek-monkey said:
I'd love it if they could, be great to sip a cider watching the chuggers get told to **** off every few minutes. Would be the perfect addition to the farmers market!
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I was never really sure how genuinely official the PandA House situation was - I was there for the first outside event and three coppers perused it for some minutes before eventually sloping off.
 
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Sir BoD

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@LLFC If you're still about buddy, is the micro pub still going ahead? The reason I ask is that my mate Marve has heard something through the grapevine that although the place will be a tap house, it will concentrate more on the bottle side of things? To be honest, I don't really care either way, it's all :pint:. Cheers.
 
LLFC

LLFC

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Sir BoD said:
@LLFC If you're still about buddy, is the micro pub still going ahead? The reason I ask is that my mate Marve has heard something through the grapevine that although the place will be a tap house, it will concentrate more on the bottle side of things? To be honest, I don't really care either way, it's all :pint:. Cheers.
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Hopefully still going ahead..... The SBC still have three more weeks to decide but we have had some good feedback from the conservation officer - no objections! We have a number of on site meetings planned for later in the week in order to create an action plan. The guy who wants the ground floor is a huge fan of ale so I'm expecting it to be more geared towards tap side than bottles. I expect the bottles provide a good backup plan though as he can appeal to a wider market. Just need to decide what to do with the other 2 floors! Any takers?
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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If I was in a position to go self employed I'd be tempted to take the first floor as offices and the second as my temporary home! It could work as offices for the right sized company, room for 3 good offices on the upper floor for the bosses. Good views onto the square too, could impress new clients. This would work well for a business with 12-15 employees looking to be able to expand to maybe 20-25. Central position, perfect for the train etc.

I guess the type of business below will directly influence the trade of the business above through association. I'd see being above a craft beer outlet a good thing, I could imagine a solicitors would not!
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
After reading that back a design agency is the obvious choice. Nice big display window, quirky building, used to be a gun shop, above a specialist bar, its got design agency all over it!
 
Katniss

Katniss

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tek-monkey said:
If I was in a position to go self employed I'd be tempted to take the first floor as offices and the second as my temporary home! It could work as offices for the right sized company, room for 3 good offices on the upper floor for the bosses. Good views onto the square too, could impress new clients. This would work well for a business with 12-15 employees looking to be able to expand to maybe 20-25. Central position, perfect for the train etc.

I guess the type of business below will directly influence the trade of the business above through association. I'd see being above a craft beer outlet a good thing, I could imagine a solicitors would not!
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A friend of mines dream was to run a pub so he sold his business and moved into one. A couple of years later he decided to sell up and go back to what he was doing before. He found that he was continually having a drink with his customers and what he thought was his dream job was infact the worst job he could have picked.:pint::pint::pint::pint:
 
Floss

Floss

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Katniss said:
A friend of mines dream was to run a pub so he sold his business and moved into one. A couple of years later he decided to sell up and go back to what he was doing before. He found that he was continually having a drink with his customers and what he thought was his dream job was infact the worst job he could have picked.:pint::pint::pint::pint:
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I've lived in a pub and it is much better on the customer side of the bar, there is nothing worse than listening to one of your customers who thinks they're funny by telling the same joke to every single person that comes through the door, the funny thing is you get to remember people by what they drink, if someone mentions anyone by name and you can't place them, ask what they drink and their face comes to mind.
 
Katniss

Katniss

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Floss said:
I've lived in a pub and it is much better on the customer side of the bar, there is nothing worse than listening to one of your customers who thinks they're funny by telling the same joke to every single person that comes through the door, the funny thing is you get to remember people by what they drink, if someone mentions anyone by name and you can't place them, ask what they drink and their face comes to mind.
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I've worked in a bar in the past and you would always get some boring bloke propping up the bar talking about either football or somebody he had shagged last night.
 
arthur

arthur

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I used to live in a pub when my kids were little - it was hard work i hardly saw the kids and i was totally fed up of the life style after 6 years.

The customers used to say things like 'cheer up it might never happen" and "i came in here to get away from the wife" . I was soooooooooooo tempted to say 'it f...king has happened youv'e come in' and unfortunatly you came in here"
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Odd hours on the license application on the window, the 12-22 I can understand but why the 09:30 to 10:30?
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Oh, and as some of the other info is now in the new market thread....

If you get the license you want to open the same weekend as the cheese and ale festival. Will there be cheese available or can you bring your own in? Maybe you could provide paper plates and sell some pickles/crackers!
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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I'm also thinking about the law firm upstairs. I can see it working tbh, the layout that is. Main partners upstairs, waiting room looking out onto the square perhaps with another office in the other window. Admin to the left near the kitchen area.

Not as fun as a design agency but probably more stable a customer!
 
Katniss

Katniss

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tek-monkey said:
I'm also thinking about the law firm upstairs. I can see it working tbh, the layout that is. Main partners upstairs, waiting room looking out onto the square perhaps with another office in the other window. Admin to the left near the kitchen area.

Not as fun as a design agency but probably more stable a customer!
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I thought there were already a couple of solicitors based in the town.
 
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