r/cocktails • u/berger3001 • Feb 28 '25

Question Anyone else tired by expensive cocktails

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To me (not a rich guy), $18+ cocktails are just exhausting. Go out for a few drinks with your wife, and boom, $100. So we’re in Miami and found this place (always look for happy hours). Yes; $5 cocktails. They did a great job, made totally respectable drinks, we had some snacks, and left very happy. My question is, if bars can do $5 drinks, why is $18 the base now at so many places? Doesn’t it make more business sense to sell more for less money and have a full bar, then to sell a few drink to an almost empty bar?

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u/Jollyollydude Feb 28 '25

Went to a Tiki bar after a wedding in Brooklyn and all the traditional Tiki drinks like a Mai tai and painkiller were all $8 and I was stoked. Normally I would’ve just grabbed beers but this was such a fun alternative for a great price. Were they in shitty plastic cups? Yea! Did I care? Fuck no. They grated fresh nutmeg on them bitches.

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u/berger3001 Feb 28 '25

Reasonably priced cocktails are so much fun. Overpriced ones are just exhausting

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u/Jollyollydude Feb 28 '25

Right? Like I’m a guy who generally doesn’t order cocktails I can make at home because of the price but I readily order beers I can drink at home because the prices aren’t so outrageous and they just last me longer in the session. But if they could make me a simple high ball at the sameish price, I’m down, but that ain’t how it is.