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Monday, March 29, 2010
Pay cover once, get into 5 Oregon District bars with new wristbands
Oregon District bars are coming together to keep patrons into their businesses.
Beginning Friday, April 2, five live music venues will offer a shared wristband that will allow customers to enter all the bars after paying just a $3 to $5 cover at one.
“This is definitely a way for all the smaller venues to band together,” Dublin Pub owner Steve Tieber said. “We are not necessarily competing with each other, but we are in competition with Cincinnati and Columbus and some of the (Dayton) suburban areas.”
The Dublin Pub, Trolley Stop, Tumbleweed, & Blind Bob’s and the new Side Bar, which is scheduled to open soon, will participate in the “Oregon One Stop Bar Hop” initiative. Oregon Express does not plan to take part in the program.
Wiley’s Comedy Club will offer the wrist bands to its customers, but will not honor them due to the different cost of admission, Tieber said.
The program will greatly reduce the cost of a night on the town, Tieber said, noting that Newcom’s Tavern, Ned Pepper’s and Sloopy’s dance clubs stopped charging a cover for admission about a year ago.
“This has been talked about for a long time,” he said. “It a result of listening to what the costumer wanted… You might be out 20 bucks before you buy four beers.”
Tieber said the music venues will lose about 10 percent at the door, but will more than make up the profit through food and bar sales.
“The greater picture is that we are creating a situation that will entice people to come to the Oregon District,” he said. “Dayton in general has to think about how to keep people in the city.”
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