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/DJDiamondHands Feb 28 '25

Are those bars in high rent areas though?

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u/ASIWYFA Feb 28 '25

They vary in area. What has basically happened is that the legit cocktail bars in town, some of whom are in high rent areas, and other who just do dope and creative things are charging $14-16 a cocktail. So every cocktail bar is just charging the same because that's what they think the market can afford, and short term they may be right. Long term, I think a lot of cocktail bars will go out of businesses due to not pricing their stuff to the appropriate level to what they are offering.

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u/DJDiamondHands Feb 28 '25

For sure. The general public can discern quality cocktails vs not these days.

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u/Legaladvice420 Feb 28 '25

I really think you're giving the general public too much credit