What months will be busy for my bar? Which will be slow? After Covid, the schedule is so screwy.

• Someday Bar opened in July 2019. Obviously it was a brutal time to open.
• It started as a nerdy craft beer bar, and that's what Megan assumed it would stay.
• But when Covid hit they pivoted. (She hates that buzzword, but here we are.) They still had awesome beers, but they leaned way more into cocktails than she ever thought they would. She attributes that to how much more people were drinking during the pandemic.
• So they were making cocktails and sealing them in plastic bags with a hairdryer for takeout.
• While basically every other bar around them closed, they managed to squeak through, even though they were basically getting the shaft from relief programs (more on that next week).
• Things feel ok now, but whenever you solve one problem its like 3 new ones pop up.
• One compelling example: you used to know what your busy and slow months would be. E.g. July 4th and January would be slow and you could plan accordingly with regards to staff, projects, etc. But that's out the door now—sometimes Someday has awesome months when you'd expect a dud. And vice versa. It's tough.

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