u/SwampGentleman

Hey yall. I’ve been bartending for about 6 years now, from barbacking to high level mixology to beertending.
I’ve maintained a fantasy of owning my own bar, and I’ve spoken with enough bar owners to also ground my expectations.

I have my visions for what I would build, depending on the available real estate and bar sizes. I’ve spoken with folks about my visions and gotten a LOT of interest.
I’ve got a lot of folks who are up to invest when the time comes.

BUT. I’ve never managed. I’ve never opened a bar. I know I’m not ready yet.
How did you go, specifically, from “I have a vision” to figuring out what paperwork to do, navigating the legalities, talking to distributors, all that stuff? Where is the itemized “to do” list?😂 if I could find somebody who has opened a bar before to partner with, that’d be amazing, but I don’t know HOW to find them! (Besides my boss, but I feel it’d be tacky to ask them.)

Hey friends, this is a silly question, but I'm on the prowl for faceted low-grade gems. Not glass, not imitation, real gems, just... not the nice ones.

I love inclusions. I love striations. I love texture.

I'm not using them for anything besides fidgeting, but I keep boxes of different facets and cabs around my house that I stim with when I'm thinking (bonus- I get to feel like a pirate captain or perhaps a king.)

I don't want to overpay for glass in epoxy or whatever a lot of the actively fake ones are, but if anybody knows where I could begin to look, I'd be so grateful.