let's talk about the costs of the bar in soy seminar in Patera that I was running
that's what this video is about I've gone through some books I did have
and some figures and roughly work today's now different types of beer bars
in Thailand when you're walking around you see the ones there's the small
little bars in a circle maybe a hexagon there right out in the middle open-air I
think in Phuket in the some of the back streets there little minut bars open
plan then you've got the ones in SOI 7 further up where there let's sort of
open plan they're not a building but they're quite good size bar with seating
at the front under a cover and it could be wooden bars but you know the size I
mean these sort of open bars there's those type then there's open bars which
are concrete made permanent structures which have got shutters and things are
pulled down and then you've got the ones like the one I had in which enjoy sewing
which was a building with shutters at the front now I've a quick look around
again up 2017 I'm not sure whether prices but when you get a beer bar in
anywhere in Thailand if you're buying one now I never bought one so I'm not
100% sure of this guys if you want to drop some comments and correct me feel
free but you might have heard the expression key money when you're buying
a bar you're not actually only in the bar you're giving money to the owner to
have a lease that's called key money for them to give you the key to the bar and
I believe I believe you get that money back I'm not sure please correct me let
me know if let's say I am correct and you get an open bar and you've given
them say they might be a million baht 20 thousand pound
25 thousand pound to get a key at a bar in a good area in whichever time
and I'm thinking you get that money back but let's say you've we ever Piper bar
you you're getting and buying you you give you key money you get a lease that
bars then yours to do with what you like for year two three years whatever but
you still want to pay rent every might be weekly might be monthly yearly
whatever you set up with the owner monthly is the most common I believe so
back in my day I so didn't own the bar my bosses did I did see the numbers and
some of my friends showed me their numbers so an open bar back in 2000 2002
in Pattaya was about 8,000 about a month for a small data loading bar in a good
area and then the slightly in closed ones which were concrete structures were
about ten twelve thousand bar say in SOI aids and then you move it up to the
litter bar though I had now asked was a lot more money because we had about five
or six rooms upstairs so you could have made it a guest case but because my boss
new young friends and everything she did all the work so we were paying twenty
thousand about a month for the bar which I think was quite good considering those
five rooms and things it was cheap it could have it might have been it should
have been thirty thousand a month possibly and because they were French
Davis discount so I'm basing it on what we actually paid which was twenty
thousand back month for this bar and that was the rent for the building and
I've worked some numbers out I'm not going to write them all on the screen
but I just run through the bills we had and I'll give you the totals and you can
see we had salaries so mamasan was fourteen thousand a month
mine was twenty two thousand a month the cashier we had was three thousand a
month which was cheap but she got a real upstairs with her fella who also worked
for my boss on the money side so three thousand a month for the cashier two bar
girls toy and the other tomboy was I am Anthes to 12,000 bar where three
those about electric and miscellaneous now we eventually stuck to ten girls
full-time and we did find some freelancers later on and the girls we
were paying them three thousand bats a month salary but they were then getting
a kickback on lady drinks I think it was twenty bar for every lady drink they
sold and bar fines with ours was three hundred but I find them getting a
hundred back so we were making two hundred by each bar fine and each lady
drink we were making about sixty bar so the salary for those ten girls three
grand each was was thirty thousand by a month so our total for that whole bath
everything for one month was a hundred and four thousand bar now sounds a lot
but if you break it down into four weeks of the month sake that was twenty-six
thousand bar a week the costs I wish equate down again so about three
and a half thousand about a day was the running cost to break even
now we were open ten in the morning will close in two in the morning that seems
to be quite average on a lot of bars most of your traffic football is going
to be late afternoon and through the evening and night I've averaged again
beers shorts as a young of odd cook coke we used to make about sixty Bart on a
beer roughly forty bar a beer you make money on the bar fine say 200 bar so if
all ten girls have gone out the door that's two thousand bucks profit for the
bar you haven't got to sell many beers name but they didn't they'd only get bar
find each girl apart from the top ones some of the menu once a week some twice
a week so you didn't get huge amount with bar finds the the way I work today
is we had to sell about 90 beers a day
including shorts vodka and gin and everything else but if you got bar fines
then that come off that figure and lady drinks there's more profit as well but
just as a ballpark let's say let's say 80 drinks a day so you need to get 80
drinks of a sold to cover that bigger bar now if you've got one of the smaller
bars that the costs would be and you didn't have girls because quite a few
bars don't have girls then you get freelancers come in you can get your
costs probably down to about forty fifty thousand bar a month in which case
you've only got to sell twenty 30 beers a day so you can see from those numbers
that you can make a living but you need to make those are just to break even all
these numbers to give yourself a salary for food in you your room you've got to
rent your food to live that your visas you go in AG money you really meet need
to double your costs so you've got a salary and a living but I know one guy
who's in for he and he's got a very small bar and his total cost no girls
anything is only twenty-two thousand bar a month for his bar and he takes about
12 13 thousand profit a month that's all on top of the costs but is enough for
him to live there and he's been there for maybe 10 years and he's happy with
that lifestyle so you can live in Thailand on a small bar if you do it
right but it's all about keeping costs down as soon as you start employing
girls like we did and staff that's where the cost goes through the roof and then
you've really got to get the people in the door and as I said in other ones you
do that with a Paul conversations the dartboard anything you can now in my day
again 2000 2002 we have the Internet but it was only it was pretty new still back
then you didn't have the explosion of Facebook and social media if I have had
social media now back in those days I could have easily doubled the bar
takings I think with events and links and coordinating the other bars doing
things together so that that makes you life a little bit easier because a lot
of downsides remember the bars there is quite a few pitfalls you go be careful
you're always setting those bars all the time keep an eye on everything could you
trust all that sort of stuff anyway that's another videos altogether so
there we go that's the costs of the bar I had in SOI sound that I managed
we had to sell 90 beers a day 8090 beers a day that's a lot of beer or coffins or
GNO vodka but still a lot but if you've got one customer come in start ringing
the bell you can go the sky's the limit couple of you asked me ringing the bell
what's the bell what's all that about I will do a video on the Bell and
there's even some new guys coming on what's bar fines and all the basics if
you want me to do some basic videos give me a shout on the comments below I will
but yeah it was interesting going through those numbers again from from my
past for the year and nine months I was in that bar before I left we the owner
said to me as long as we break even I don't care not fussed about profit we
broke even every month for that year and nine months I was in that bar but we
didn't make a lot of profit we didn't make a loss bits and pieces but nothing
special so the owner didn't really lose but she did put a lot of money in the
renovation of beginning I was opening she had got that back so mmm yeah if it
had been a bar ready to go she just got it we could have made a bit of a profit
but we employed quite a few people for a year in nine months I went on after I
left someone else took over the manager's job and it went on for another
couple of years before it started changing hands every month they get
costs of running my bar in so I said catch you soon please all the comments
below again any questions stuff after an answer them and loving you guys
interaction is brilliant really good catch on my next one bye for now