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Coffee is a very low cost to bars. They probably throw away more mistakes in alcohol than an entire pot of coffee runs them.
If someone has been drinking/spending all night, then give them a cup of coffee or two. Sheesh!

This is a HUGE MYTH! The only thing that will sober someone up once they've been drinking is time.
Alcohol leaves your body at a rate of .015% BAC (blood alcohol level) per hour. So if your BAC is .015, you’ll be sober in an hour, and so on.
Coffee or any other thing taken or done (cold showers) to "sober up" have all been proven not to work.
All coffee does is make a very wide awake drunk.
When a person has been drinking, it's never a good idea to drive, period.

Clearly, the bar has decided to charge for coffee because there are people who think they can hang around and be entertained while drinking refillable coffee all night or find some other way to spend little or no money. For the bar, it's simply economics.

Interestingly, no matter what the discussion is on this forum regarding cheapskates, you can count on hearing from members who are cocksure that cheapskates are not really a problem.

On the other hand, when there are postings about how an owner has chosen to deal with the problem of cheapskates, there will always be those who suggest that the owner's is somehow wrong in his approach to the ("non-existent") problem. Hmm? Which is it?

And when it comes to cheapskates most posters insist that the problem, if any, is solely the owners. So, if that is the case why do we beat this "dead horse" every time an owner reacts to cheapskates and find fault with their decision? If it's their problem let them handle it.

Meanwhile, there are KJ's who have found cheapskates have become a problem that effects them directly! But, if the problem is solely the owner's and should be left to the owner, a KJ can't complain about how he is being effected by the owner's response to cheapskates!

Babs is going to yell at me for not getting in more often, but I still concider myself one of her regulars...

I generally drink beer or my "Doc Shot" (equal parts gin and vodka) for the majority of the night and then drink the free water or coffee for the last hour or two... I think this new policy will ultimately cause me to spend less because I'll be drinking less and stretching it out longer so I don't end up driving impaired.

Ripman

Sorry for the delayed response

Let's just say I have experienced "business" from every side of the spectrum and of course have my own entertainment business. Ironically, since my earliest involvement in business, I learned that many businessmen make money in spite of themselves; you can never discount luck - serendipity.

Nonetheless, I do take exception to anyone who is quick to criticize when the investment/risk is not theirs! However if such a person has or had a business and can state unequivocally that they never made a wrong business decision, then I might give such a person a "pass" for criticizing others.

But please don't lose sight of the fact that my above referenced post was more a response to the differing opinions and all too often contradictory opinions that appear(ed) in this thread and on this forum regarding this topic and related topics!