Open, run and grow a bar the right way

Liquor license guides for every state, a step-by-step opening playbook, and real lessons from a builder who has opened about 40 bars, including the ones that failed.

From our expert, Geoff Dawson, who has designed, built and run about 40 bars since 1992, starting with Bedrock Billiards in Washington, DC. He shares what works, what doesn't, and what he wishes he'd known before his first bar.