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a cash bar with tickets: The host issues vouchers to attendees for a limited number of free drinks, and attendees pay for any further drinks themselves. [1] a host bar (a.k.a. an open bar): The host pays for all drinks, either by the hour, by the bottle, by the drink, or per person. [1] [3] [4]
A bar at Sheremetyevo International Airport, July 1980 A drinking establishment is a business whose primary function is the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. [ 1 ] Some establishments may also serve food, or have entertainment, but their main purpose is to serve alcoholic beverages.
Today, there is no strict definition, but the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) states a pub has four characteristics: is open to the public without membership or residency; serves draught beer or cider without requiring food be consumed; has at least one indoor area not laid out for meals; allows drinks to be bought at a bar (i.e., not only table ...
A music bar is a bar that presents live music as an attraction, such as a piano bar. A dive bar, often referred to simply as a "dive", is a very informal bar which may be considered by some to be disreputable. A non-alcoholic bar is a bar that does not serve alcoholic beverages. A strip club is a bar with nude entertainers.
The wooden bar in front of the magistrate's bench in an 18th-century outdoor courtroom in Belgium. The origin of the term bar is from the barring furniture dividing a medieval European courtroom, which defined the areas restricted to lawyers and court personnel from which the general public was excluded.
A dive bar is typically a small, unglamorous, eclectic, old-style drinking establishment with inexpensive drinks; it may feature dim lighting, shabby or dated decor, neon beer signs, packaged beer sales, cash-only service, and local clientele. [1] The precise definition of a dive bar is rarely agreed on, and is the subject of spirited debates. [2]
An open-container law is a law which regulates or prohibits drinking alcohol in public by limiting the existence of open alcoholic beverage containers in certain areas, as well as the active consumption of alcohol in those areas. "Public places" in this context refers to openly public places such as sidewalks, parks and vehicles.
A crash bar (also known as a panic exit device, panic bar, or bump bar) [1] [2] is a type of door opening mechanism which allows users to open a door by pushing a bar. While originally conceived as a way to prevent crowd crushing in an emergency, crash bars are now used as the primary door opening mechanism in many commercial buildings.