Re: Brit Bars in Spain - Some Issues and Observations
 

I was waiting for his talk on S.W.A.T. analysis lol.

Some years ago we were in Spain on holiday and used a little English bar in the morning for a bite to eat etc. My wife got on well with the wife who was running the bar and one morning this poor gal burst into tears while chatting with my Welsh love goddess. She hated the job, hated working seven days a week, hated not having a holiday in years, hated being stuck in a hot kitchen frying breakfasts and making pie and chips and other de rigueur meals for brit tourists and she hated the fact that with all the work they put in they were only just keeping there heads above water. Spanish bars were selling beer cheaper than they could buy it in wholesale and the competition was cut throat. They'd been there years and still no swimming pool to go home to. This was in Majorca about fifteen years ago, I doubt she stuck it out another year.

My lass is wonderful, a senior mental health specialist nurse BUT...people with problems just seem to latch on to her. We go on a plane and there is one person who has a panic attack guess who they are sitting next to (four times over the years), depressed bar keepers guess who they talk to, even a depressed check out girl at Tesco...


The OP was right in that running a bar in Spain (or anywhere these days) is a mugs game.

Re: Brit Bars in Spain - Some Issues and Observations
 

I'm convinced that Brits who come to run a bar in Spain are just the same as those who have a gap year in middle age. They've done their bit back home; work, kids, fading relationships, voting for idiots, and reach a time when only years of drudgery lie ahead.

They've saved up a bit of money and can either travel the world, or run a bar in Spain. Either way their savings will be gone after a year or so, but their lives are bound to be enriched by the experience.

They're brave people, all of them, but bravery usually contains an element of stupidity and irresponsibility. They would be the first ones to jump out of the trenches during the wars, and the first ones to be machine gunned; but the bar owners don't get medals for bravery, they just go skint.

Re: Brit Bars in Spain - Some Issues and Observations
 

SWAT or SWOT ?
isnt SWAT something from Police 5 or something

the only people still in the game are the mug makers, and they have all moved to China.

it sounds like that is a place where they stepped into water out of their depth and it just floated along from there. Sad, because as with other jobs, it takes a great deal to get yourself out of the khaki.
you know what the problem is but you just cannot shut up shop for a month and come back with a new menu, new hours, new attitudes.

sorry, but running a bar seems a nice idea when half pissed and seeing all that money going one way. a few sessions from the other side should put you right.
My BH spent many years as a barmaid, she says she would rather run a dogs home than a bar/pub. The clients show their appreciation.

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