Joined Apr 2005
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA!!!!
Hey Folks,
My wife and I are thinking about expanding our business ventures and opening a large cigar/social club in the DC Metro area. My thoughts stem from a past smoke shop I used to frequent in Pittsburgh. My thoughts would include a very large walk in humidor carrying High end sticks, but with the a variety for all smokers, as well as your resonably priced daily smokers as well as quality pipe tobaccos both available in bulk and pouch. I see a large counter with higher end lighters,cutters,pipe tools, and pipes as well as maybe some ashtrays and so fourth. The ambiance would be old school mens club. Large burgandy leather couches and chairs, at least one wide screen TV as well as a very nice pool table, dart board, chess table, and of course a bar. My thoughts for this club would be just that, make it a membership club/store where those folks who would want to partake in all the activities for free ( IE - billiards,darts,chess) as well as get membership discounts on sticks and products could pay a membership fee. This would open them to sponsored events as well, have vendor reps come in, social events, that kind of thing. Lots of hardwood and lots of class. First, would people enjoy an environmnet like this? Would people enjoy this like a social club, since there are so little cigar/pipe friendly environments? Any thoughts would be appreciated, my wife and I are seriously in the beginning stages of writiing business plans and statements as well as gathering investors, so, I am very interested in your thoughts.
Thanks,
Paul
My wife and I are thinking about expanding our business ventures and opening a large cigar/social club in the DC Metro area. My thoughts stem from a past smoke shop I used to frequent in Pittsburgh. My thoughts would include a very large walk in humidor carrying High end sticks, but with the a variety for all smokers, as well as your resonably priced daily smokers as well as quality pipe tobaccos both available in bulk and pouch. I see a large counter with higher end lighters,cutters,pipe tools, and pipes as well as maybe some ashtrays and so fourth. The ambiance would be old school mens club. Large burgandy leather couches and chairs, at least one wide screen TV as well as a very nice pool table, dart board, chess table, and of course a bar. My thoughts for this club would be just that, make it a membership club/store where those folks who would want to partake in all the activities for free ( IE - billiards,darts,chess) as well as get membership discounts on sticks and products could pay a membership fee. This would open them to sponsored events as well, have vendor reps come in, social events, that kind of thing. Lots of hardwood and lots of class. First, would people enjoy an environmnet like this? Would people enjoy this like a social club, since there are so little cigar/pipe friendly environments? Any thoughts would be appreciated, my wife and I are seriously in the beginning stages of writiing business plans and statements as well as gathering investors, so, I am very interested in your thoughts.
Thanks,
Paul