Oh, the bar business in Sioux Falls. Apparently it is so competitive that competing bars and patrons start rumors.
When the Bonus Round opened their tally ho second location downtown, they had a fantastic idea – pay 10 bucks at the door and get a free beer and unlimited pinball play. Pretty good deal. I would say a great deal if you are a pinball maniac.
Well apparently a bunch monkeys around town decided to turn this into the classic elementary school game of ‘around the world’. It’s an interesting game where you whisper a FACT into the person next to you and it travels around the room and the last one proclaims what they heard.
It never turns out well or truthful.
You can walk into either location and NOT pay a cover. It was a marketing idea, and a good one that turned into a vicious rumor.
I have a special place in my heart for Ike and Cricket who opened a cool bar in my neighborhood and now downtown. They are hardworking people who started a grassroots business that makes people happy. Micro brews and pinball. They love what they do, and they literally would give the shirts off their backs to patrons, and I have seen it.
So please, stop the BS rumors. They are just trying to irk out a living just like the rest of us working stiffs.
Someone in town should open up a bar where for $10 you get a beer and an axe. Now, here’s the catch. There won’t be any designated axe throwing areas, but there will be targets all over the walls of the bar. They will play rumors too, except each new rumor will involve the girlfriend of the patron next to you, that you don’t know. It will also have a British pub theme and be called ‘Bloody Rumors.’
( – and Woodstock states: “Yah mate, it’s going to be a ‘catch’ all right, right between the eyes.”)