“We’ve been self-funding for three years,” she said. “We’re lucky to still have this.”
Clive Bar isn’t the only Austin watering hole struggling to make ends meet.
Bars across the city, including those in restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues, have collectively experienced a decline in sales every year since 2022, according to an American-Statesman analysis of alcohol tax receipts that businesses must report each month.
The decline is remarkable because, absent a dramatic drop during the pandemic, alcohol sales in Austin had increased steadily every year between 2007 – the earliest year for which data was available – and 2022.
Now I had heard that not drinking or drinking in moderation had become fashionable, but I totally underestimated the trend
Could be, but Texas really isn’t weed freindly at all.
Alcohol however isn’t really a positive thing, I would imagine a lot of people coming out of the COVID 19 lock-downs were needing a break from the bottle.
I think it is more of a drop in people patronizing bars than actual drop in alcohol sales. I guess folks don’t socialize like they used to, which was the whole purpose of going to bars. I quit drinking 15 years ago and haven’t stepped foot into a bar in 25 years so I am a little out of touch with current trends.
Seems about right, I basically stopped drinking alcohol this year, Will have one or 2 drinks at a social event. I keep nothing in the house anymore and never buy any now.
That’s my take and view it to be at least as detrimental to society as drugs with the only things more detrimental being prohibition and the current war on drugs.
It is more like the guys are over the bar scene. They are tired of buying women drinks, spending money and getting nothing out of it or even made fun of on social media. The amount of bitching single women going apesh*t over it on videos are hilarious. They are pissed that the gravy train is now gone and have resorted to calling men all kinds of stuff because of it. It is entertaining as hell to watch, but they asked for equality and are now pissed that men have said “Ok, here you go. Like it?”
Give those dumb bitches exactly what they deserve. Modern women don’t know how or refuse to behave like ladies, and they seem to all want to be girl bosses or whatever. Great, have fun with that.
If I were single I wouldn’t bother with them. I’d find myself a nice foreign woman who would hopefully appreciate a quite gainfully employed dude that wants to be a traditional wife and import her. Over time we can breed the stupid out of the female population by refusing to mate with the ones who have succumbed to the mind virus of feminism and social media nonsense.
Kids don’t socialize the way you and I did. We see this in barracks, where drinking laws are definitely well enforced, always, wink, wink.
People are addicted to social media and use it as a proxy for human contact. The worsening of social skills post-lockdown didn’t help, but this direction started getting noticeable around 15 years ago, in barracks culture.
This !
We don’t gather anymore.
Trust me, Guys suddenly didn’t figure out that buying drinks for Girls is nonproductive or that meeting Girls in a Bar is counter productive.
People aren’t gathering in Groups anymore because they don’t Socialize like they used to.
When my Dad had a High Power Executive spot we sat down one evening when I was like ten with cases of Booze. He attatched a card to each bottle and we took two or three cases of Booze out to the Pontiac an put them in the trunk.
So, he comes home a week later and has two cases of Booze that Guys had given him.
And the beat goes on.
But People don’t Socialize like they used to and they don’t drink together because they aren’t Socializing.
It couldn’t have anything to do with the astronomical increase in prices of drinks when going out lol. Beers are like $8-12 and cocktails are approaching $18-30. I mean a bottle of bourbon that should be $24.99 is selling for $75 and even $189.99 lol
I’ve seen an increase in booze prices, but not that dramatically. Perhaps at bars?
I’m guessing the rise in price has a lot to do with labor prices. Here in Texas you have to be licenced to be a Bartender, so that breaks the Minimum Wage thing.
Tips + Wages I would imagine there pulling in 25-40 and hour.
