I want to know everything, I am currently going to college for International Business with a minor in French. I LOVE cigars like everybody here, and just want to get research because my dream is to some day open my own place!
-Thank You!
I want to know everything, I am currently going to college for International Business with a minor in French. I LOVE cigars like everybody here, and just want to get research because my dream is to some day open my own place!
-Thank You!
Must haves for any cigar store:
- Cigars from all over the world, including Thailand, Norway, Czech Republic, Lithuania, and - of course, Mascedonia.
- Wine and Scotch bar
- Gourmet chef and dining facility (what goes better than a cigar than a thick, juicy steak!)
- Workout facility complete with scantily clad massage therapists - so I can lift weights while smoking a cigar (that's how Arnold got so massive) and get a good rub down afterwards.
- Betting parlor, including table games. But no slot machines - those are for girls.
- An on-staff horse racing handicapper (to go along with the betting parlor)
- Small, nine hole golf course out back.
- On premise dry cleaner
Good luck with your venture. I'm sure if anyone's going to make it work, it will be you!
BTW - you have to get in contact with YoungForbes - our resident venture capitalist. He's hard to get a hold of, but if you can connect with him I'm sure he'll want in with you!
Last edited by ggiese; 05-29-2012 at 08:16 AM.
No cigar shoppe is complete without a wide selection of Acids.
Normally, I look for cigars in a cigar shop.
Doc
Do draft dodgers have reunions? And if so what do they talk about?
Doc
Hookah, if i don't see a giant water bong in the window i don't bother walking in the door.
designated whipping boy for the grammar police
Just run everything threw a spell checker.
Gin
Hookers
And a really cool Indian
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
~ Gerry Adams
I love the smart as replies! I also love the serious ones too! My goal is to bring a new generation into an amazing culture!
and for those of us that don't drink...........
A head shop with with a nice assortment of pipes and bongs.
Oh yeah I almost forgot, the place should really have a pole and strippers.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Ernest Henley***
My wife has made an interesting observation about Canada. She has opined that life in Canada must be boring, because there's an awful lot of bars and strip clubs dotting the countryside (I guess not that much to do during those long, cold winters). I'm not quite sure it's out of the norm (Canada vs. U.S., for example), but wifey sure picked up on it.
I'm looking out for my Canaduan bretheren and in the interest of dispelling any potential myth - perhaps you could scale back your request for "poles" and "strippers" and maybe just settle for scantily clad massage therapists?!?
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Ernest Henley***
In the US, there are many roadside churches and car dealers. I'll take bars and strip clubs.
Well the whole idea is I want to provide a place where new and old smokers alike a place to sit down and enjoy their cigars. I want to be able to provide fully humidified lockers, over sized leather chairs and couches, nice tv's, kitchen, bar, wine cellar.
See - your vision is SO mainstream - old school kind of thinking. Many shops have failed because the owner was afraid to venture outside the box! Break through to that next level - change the paradigm.
You truly want the create a cigar shop that is a "destination" - a place people want to go and hang out. You want to have a wide variety of services and products available that customers will spend money on.
Consider:
- Multi-screen movie theater
- Indoor skate park
- Indoor water park
- High end hotel
- Bowling alley (I know, but they're making a come back...)
- Live bands
- 500+ beer and/or wine selection
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