Comments on: The Red Room, bottled water and bar-hopping

By: What my weekend looked like « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:21:37 +0000

[...] Filed under: personal life, weekend recap — Raul @ 9:21 am You all know of the wonderful dinner at La Bodega that my friend Rebecca organized on Thursday where even my friends LM and MAG came and joined, so I’ll move on to Friday. Friday was an [...]

By: Blogaholics » Blog Archive » The one about the Red Room and the glass of water

Sat, 17 May 2008 14:17:08 +0000

[...] This no free water rule is extremely stupid. I’m being a responsible person driving my friends to a club so that they can drink to their hearts content (and if you know Duane, you know he has a BIG heart ). I’m enabling them to drink and spend money, but The Red Room is too cheap to give me some tap water, which costs them nothing. Instead they want to charge me $4.25 for a 500ml bottle of water, which is probably tap water to begin with. Contrast this to what Raul says bars do in Mexico. [...]

By: Duane Storey

Duane Storey — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:45:15 +0000

When I was on anti-biotics in the winter I actually wasn’t allowed to drink. At pretty much every bar I went to, they just gave me free fountain drinks whenever I asked. It’s insane that they wouldn’t give out free tap water.

By: Maktaaq

Maktaaq — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:45:05 +0000

The bracelet idea is awesome! Why don’t more places do this? Mind you, I hate pop, but real juice or soda water would be nice!

By: Raul

Raul — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:15:56 +0000

@ Gus – My friend JT just told me that The Fountainhead often does that. Fountainhead, FTW!

By: bz

bz — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:40:44 +0000

Stick a jug on the end of the bar with a stack of plastic glasses.

Your staff isnt bothered by the water requests, your patrons dont become drunk asshats.

Simple.

By: Gus

Gus — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:46 +0000

Yeah that sucks big time.

I can’t remember where, or which bar back east, but I do recall once saying I was a designated driver and the bar didn’t charge me for any of my fountain drinks. I thought that was awesome of them to do!

But yeah, come on Red Room, it’s only tap water?!

By: TylerIngram

TylerIngram — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:52:43 +0000

That does suck. I know waitresses to bring around bottled water (which you pay for) unless you’ve specified a glass of water (which you don’t pay for, or shouldn’t anyway).

The bracelets are good. Yes they the staff that you shouldn’t be drinking alcohol because you’re the DD but they should allow you unlimited access to water!