[Blacklabcollective] silent era show

[Anju Singh]

Great news! I'm still in support of raising drinks to $4.

Anju

On Saturday, 25 June 2016, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh wait, I completely forgot that we still have like 3 or 4 15 packs of
> beer in the bar, so we're doing a bit better than breaking even! Eris if
> you get a chance before the show can you toss them in the fridge?
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> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 12:35 AM, tara myketiak <taramyketiak at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','taramyketiak at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> First of all, all I have to say about this show is that it fucking
>> ruled!!! It was so much fun, the bands were killer, it was the fullest I've
>> seen the black lab in a long time, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Set
>> times ran 15 minutes late but all things considered that's great. Music
>> ended before 11:15pm.
>>
>> We did really well for money! Door was 200 and bar was 330, numbers have
>> been enetered in the May spreadsheet. We definitely made more than we've
>> been making lately, and are pretty close to hitting rent, which is great.
>> That being said, it still seems like we're barely cutting our losses at
>> bar. We had an empty fridge and Lindsay and I did a huge beer run for 320$.
>> We grossed 330$ at bar tonight, but after everything was squared away (I
>> think lindsay might have grabbed a 6 pack but maybe not, and we had about
>> 20$ in the tip jar for beers sold after i started doing count at the end of
>> the night) we are left with 7 beers and 18 ciders. So after paying out
>> bands and volunteers and taking into account the alcohol we have left we
>> made peanuts on bar. I do agree that we should give bands free beers as a
>> token of appreciation, but for whatever reason we are really making no
>> money at bar, whatsoever. I have nothing insightful to say except that it
>> seems like we are just barely making money off of our biggest source of
>> revenue, and unless we figure out some kind of revenue alternative we're
>> gonna keep hitting the red zone. This show was well attended and we made a
>> bunch of money but we really didn't make much off bar at all. Any ideas??
>> That said, super fun show, and one of the biggest shows we've seen in
>> awhile. I had a blast and it reminded me why i give a shit about being
>> involved in punk venues in the first place. Thanks everyone who was
>> involved, you all rule and I can't imagine working on shit like this
>> without you. <3 <3 Oh yeah P.S. I jumped last min  on co-bottomlining this
>> show tmrw with eris  at the meeting cause Lindsay  is gonna be out of town
>> but I don't get off of work until 6pm tomorrow so I don't have a lot of
>> time to set shit up. . I've secured a bunch of volunteers  but someone
>> needs to do a beer run and I don;t have the time to do it before the show.
>> I'm really sorry, but so it goes!
>> tara
>>
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Anju Singh
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