Question:
what is the history of bars and beverage business?
pt_dadzie
2006-01-02 04:34:17 UTC
what is the history of bars and beverage business?
Three answers:
musicimprovedme
2006-01-04 23:38:07 UTC
Bars I'm sure were part of the hospitality industry as far back as people have been eating and drinking, and more relevant, travelling. To my knowledge people didn't go out to socialize or eat much unless they were far from home, or unless they were in someone else's house, like going to friends', not a public establishment to meet over drinks and nachos, unless they hung out in the local marketplace. But for nomadic peoples, or travellers, it was a BIG deal to be able to stop and rest in a foreign place without being marauded by bandits. So you found a home, or an inn, that offered food, shelter, and of course, there would have been beverages offered, many of them alcholic. So those were your very first bars...it was expected that if you were able and a stranger knocked upon your door, you let them in and share your provisions with them, you very well may have been saving that person's life...and it was acceptable to bang on a stranger's door to ask them for hospitality too. The hospitality industry evolved over time, to be less in people's homes and free, to a business location where it was one person's job to take care of a village's strangers. Food and drink were part of the deal. So I bet the first taverns were actually part of an inn or a restaurant of some sort, and these particular establishments turned up in different forms all over the world. Cafes in France, cantinas in Spain, beer gardens in Germany, saloons in the old US.



As for breweries, I think the monks are the ones who started beers and ales. I think I remember something about the grains used being taxed as food, or perishable, so they found a way to process the grains into a drink and poof. Beer. After it was established that this was pretty good stuff, monks started producing beer for themselves and probably branched out to offer it to the poor, or to sell it to raise money for their order, the poor, or their churches. Eventually, breweries became a secular enterprise and now we have churches that prohibit the use of it. hahaha! But many many breweries started out as a small family business...I'm sure in other parts of the world, there are as many breweries as their are villages or farms.



As far as vineyards and wineries, same deal. Grapes are a crop, vineyards are maintained as a family business.



All liquor producers and coffee farmers, for that matter, I'm sure, began as a small family business. Jose the agave guy. Juan the coffee man with his donkey...



The businesses transpired out of simple economics. A craftsman with some land provided a product and a service for his community...and eventually some American got hold of it and turned it into a franchise, which is why you can get a monk's drink at any local HOOTERS bar.
ierna
2016-09-24 06:42:09 UTC
Congress made alcohol unlawful in the process the 1920's with the Volstead act. to no longer be deterred, individuals in simple terms drank in deepest golf equipment the place you had to be presented. traditionally, a guy or woman could flow to a dimly lit doorway and supply the secret knock. A view slot contained in the door could open and the guy could talk softly, as to no longer be overheard, that "Jimmy sent me" or some-such. using fact the client had to "talk worry-free" to get in, the call caught. With the repeal of prohibition contained in the 1930's the "talk worry-free" disappeared from the yankee social panorama.
duck's attitude
2006-03-26 14:11:01 UTC
Cowboys wanted somewhere to relax. After alcohol was made legal again, people figured it was a great way to make money owning a business.


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