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A bar website that shows tonight’s hours
People hunting a bar tonight are on a phone, often already in a car. They need: are you open, is there a kitchen, can they sit, and a number they can tap. A neon montage that never loads does not answer that. Tonight’s hours in the first screen do. If the homepage is a 2019 cocktail PDF and a slow slider of stock ice, they pick the place that says open or closed in one line.
This page is the bar version of that product: a marketing site a stranger can use. Hours, kitchen or not, address, tap-to-call, a private-event form if you want one. Not a POS. Not a tab app. Not a members club. If you already post specials on Instagram, we can point at that feed. We do not invent a second calendar of events you will not update.
Kitchen vs drinks-only is the first fork. Say it. Hours are the second. Happy hour only if the hours are true and you will keep them current. Live music, trivia, private room: list what you actually run this month, not a graveyard of posters from last year. A “coming soon” events page that dies in March is worse than no events page. If a food truck sits in the lot on Fridays, put that. If you close Mondays, put that. Do not hide it in a paragraph about “our vibe.”
Photos: the room you have. Phone photos after open, with the lights you actually use, beat stock whiskey pours. Skip the handshake over a copper mug. Skip a drone shot of a street we will not pretend is yours. We will not write “crafted atmosphere” copy. Use the words you put on the door. Age, dress, cash vs card, parking, patio: only the rules that are real. Fake “best dive” banners stay off. So do bought badges.
What a bar site has to answer
- Tonight’s hours, and a kitchen line if you serve food
- Address, parking or patio only if it actually matters
- What is on this week — live, trivia, private room — only if you will update it
- Real photos of the room, not a neon stock pack
- Tap-to-call. (813) 328-6079 is how this shop does it on our own pages.
- A short private-event form: name, phone, date, headcount. Big tap targets.
A person booking a birthday needs a date field and a yes-or-no on a buyout, not a 40-page cocktail blog. Keep the form short. If you already take buyouts by email, we point at that inbox. A chat widget nobody staffs at 11 p.m. is a closed door. The public site is for “are you open” and “can we book the back room.” The POS stays where it is. We do not fake a drink cart.
What stays off the page
We do not promise you will rank #1 for “bars near me.” Basic SEO on this job is a title, a meta description, and Open Graph. Not a map-pack prize. Not a blog of neighborhood pages stuffed with the town name. If you already have a site, check it before you pay. If the hours are true and the phone works, stay and patch. If the menu is a 12MB PDF that never opens on cellular, rebuild.
Not at this price: a tab app, a loyalty club, a native app, a 200-drink cart. Those get a quote. We will not write fake scarcity (“only 3 stools left”). We will not put a stock skyline and call it your block. A labeled sample of this trade sits at /examples/bar/. That sample is not a client. It is a layout: open tonight or not, kitchen or not, a number.
A hosted website with hours and a phone is $49/mo. hosting included if you want that ($54). Worldwide, 24/7. Most jobs under 72 hours when the brief is clear. Send: bar name, hours, kitchen or not, a few photos of the room, the current URL if any. Phone (813) 328-6079.
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