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Bars serve alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, and cocktails. They often also sell snacks. Bars provide seating like stools and chairs for patrons. Types of bars range from inexpensive dive bars to entertainment venues with live music. Bars employ strategies like happy hours and cover charges to encourage patronage during off-peak times. Historically, bars have gone by different names in different eras and places, like taverns, saloons, pubs, and speakeasies during Prohibition in the US.

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Bar Unit

Bars serve alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, and cocktails. They often also sell snacks. Bars provide seating like stools and chairs for patrons. Types of bars range from inexpensive dive bars to entertainment venues with live music. Bars employ strategies like happy hours and cover charges to encourage patronage during off-peak times. Historically, bars have gone by different names in different eras and places, like taverns, saloons, pubs, and speakeasies during Prohibition in the US.

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HISTORY OF BAR UNIT

A bar (also known as a saloon or a tavern or sometimes as a pub or club, referring to


the actual establishment, as in pub bar or savage club etc.) is a retail business
establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails,
and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Bars often also sell snack
foods such as potato chips (also known as crisps) or peanuts, for consumption on their
premises. Some types of bars, such as pubs, may also serve food from a restaurant
menu. The term "bar" also refers to the countertop and area where drinks are served.
The term "bar" derives from the metal or wooden bar (barrier) that is often located
along the length of the "bar".
Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons.
Bars that offer entertainment or live music are often referred to as "music bars", "live
venues", or "nightclubs". Types of bars range from inexpensive dive bars to elegant
places of entertainment, often accompanying restaurants for dining.
Many bars operate a discount period, designated a "happy hour" or discount of the
day to encourage off-peak-time patronage. Bars that fill to capacity sometimes
implement a cover charge or a minimum drink-purchase requirement during their peak
hours. Bars may have bouncers to ensure that patrons are of legal age, to eject drunk
or belligerent patrons, and to collect cover charges. Such bars often feature
entertainment, which may be a live band, vocalist, comedian, or disc jockey playing
recorded music.
Patrons may sit or stand at the counter and be served by the bartender. Depending
on the size of a bar and its approach, alcohol may be served at the bar by bartenders,
at tables by servers, or by a combination of the two. The "back bar" is a set of shelves
of glasses and bottles behind the counter. In some establishments, the back bar is
elaborately decorated with woodwork, etched glass, mirrors, and lights.
A cellarette or cellaret is a small furniture cabinet, available in various sizes, shapes,
and designs which is used to store bottles of alcoholic beverages such as wine and
whiskey.
Wood box containers as freestanding alcoholic beverage cabinets first appeared in
Europe in the fifteenth century to hold and to secure alcoholic beverages in public
houses. Cellarettes first appeared in colonial America in the eighteenth century as a
form of the European liquor cabinet. The main purpose of a liquor cabinet or cellarette
was to secure wine and whiskey from theft as the bottles were hidden and the cabinet
could have a lock.

During the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War army officers' cellarettes
often came with crystal decanters, shot glasses, pitchers, funnels, and drinking
goblets. Eighteenth century cellarette designs were used into the twentieth century.
Cellarettes of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries were found in
taverns and pubs and, in some cases, in the private homes of the elite.
Prohibition in the United States brought about variations of trompe l'oeil cellarettes
designed to conceal illegal alcoholic beverages. To the casual observer, the three
dimensional trompe l'oeil artwork on these cellarettes made them appear to be an
ordinary table, bookcase, or other piece of furniture.
There have been many different names for public drinking spaces throughout history.
In the colonial era of the United States, taverns were an important meeting place, as
most other institutions were weak. During the 19th century saloons were very
important to the leisure time of the working class. Today, even when an establishment
uses a different name, such as "tavern" or "saloon" or, in the United Kingdom, a "pub",
the area of the establishment where the bartender pours or mixes beverages is
normally called "the bar".

The sale and/or consumption of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the first half of
the 20th century in several countries, including Finland, Iceland, Norway, and the
United States. In the United States, illegal bars during Prohibition were called
"speakeasies", "blind pigs", and "blind tigers"

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