Hoboken Bar & Grill

Are you looking to make your bar a more significant hit among people? Bars can be blooming and doing exceptionally well on weekends. However, it won’t hurt to make weeknights busier. Planning exciting bar events can often ensure that even on weeknights, seats are full and beer bottles empty. Hosting events is essential to keep your bar full even on less busy days. Therefore, we have got you a list of the best entertainment ideas to make your bar stand out in the industry.

1. Trivia Night– The trivia game is a favourite among people. You can make your own kit which includes questions and answers, game materials and other marketing tools. You can make the trivia on themes such as history or pop culture. You can also throw in a game special menu for your customers.
2. Watching Marathon Parties – Bars don’t always have to host sports on screen. You can also screen popular movies or shows such as pre-show Oscar, Cult-like fanbase shows such as Game of Thrones or Friends, series finales or all-time-favourite movies. You can also design a special menu that goes along with the theme and host a cosplay.
3. Board Game Night – You can host a Bring-your-own-board-game night or even provide customers with board games to play. Boardgame bars have become a huge thing today. 

1. Dating –You can set up a night of speed dating and give your customers a break from apps like Bumble and Tinder. You can have singles rotate from seat to seat while they chat with potential partners every few minutes.
2. Friendly Dating –Instead of looking for a romantic partner, people could search for potential friends. Announcers could ask questions that you can answer and look for people who have similar answers.
3. Meetups –You could offer to host clubs or groups and provide them with group discounts or corporate discounts. The clubs could be anything ranging from the dog-lovers club and sports teams to a corporate group.
4. Charity Night –You can partner with a local charity or offer to host a fund-raising night. You can include a special menu from which a percentage of the proceeds would go to charity. This could bring in a lot of new customers for you.
5. Paint Night –You could host a night full of canvases and brushes. You could people a session with an artist where you learn to create a piece of art and also sip on to your favourite drinks.
6. Open Mic –Hosting an open mic is fantastic as not only will you get budding musicians to show their talents but also fans, friends and families supporting them while eating and drinking at your bar.

1. Bar Olympics –You can host an Olympic where people compete with each other in games such as pool, darts, foosball etc. You can also bring video games and have people competing. You can have the participants sign on early so that you know how to prepare for the night.
2. Stand-up comedy– You can also host a night of stand-up comedy as everyone would enjoy a good laugh after a hectic day. Start early with advertisings so that people can register and turn up for the event.
3. Bartending show – Do you have an army of talented bartenders? You can use this to your advantage by hosting a bartending show. The flying bottles and flaming drinks is sure to pull in a lot of crowd.
4. Tasting event – You can host an event every week where people are offered samples of wines, flavoured beers, mini cocktails etc. You can have your customers vote a drink so that it can become a limited-edition drink or even be added to the menu permanently.
5. Bar Crawl – You can participate in a bar crawl in which people are given a list of bars and names of drinks to try there. There are often themed bar crawls. This will surely attract a lot of new customers.
6. Dance-off– You could host a retro dance night, a throwback to 90’s dance night or any other theme where people come in clothes matching the themes and dance.