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Wow – Pangaea is already PROVING TO BE DANGEROUS, the bottle service got KXAN’s Michelle Vallas so drunk SHE GOT A DUI after leaving PANGAEA!

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2007/11/16/kxan_anchor_arrested_for_dwi.html

She had crossed a double yellow line while speeding! What if she hit someone head on! Thanks Pangaea Austin and Michael Ault !!!!

I'm not sure there could ever be a better quote from a club owner...

"When your bottle comes out, it comes out with a sparkler, and everybody knows you're a player," said Michael Ault, one of the owners

BOTTLE SERVICE = FUNERAL SERVICE

This is a New York Magazine article on the rise and fall of bottle service in NYC. There were 6-7 clubs on 27th Street that offered high dollar bottle service. Due to their dangerous way to serving alcohol, the bottle service clubs actually hire medics. Women became easy prey for rape and murder. Here are quotes from the article:

http://nymag.com/news/features/27845/index3.html

People threw up in front of buildings and on their clothes; turned away at the door, they spat at the doormen. “We’d find people passed out in the bathroom,” recalls a former employee of B.E.D. “You would think it was a dead body. Passed out, like scary passed out, like smack them, pick them up, they’re like Jell-O, like someone took their spine out. And on the street. You would literally see people face down in the gutter.”

Inside the clubs, people started doing “bottle shots”—drinking straight from the bottle without using any kind of glass or mixer. Clubs quietly hired EMTs—which cost thousands of dollars each night—and the ambulance companies did a steady business. Men would find women passing out on the street, lift them onto their shoulders, and carry them off to a taxi.

After leaving the club, they were so drunk that the attendants wouldn’t give them their car. Keenan was so far gone that she passed out and an ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. Jennifer Moore slipped away and was found several days later in a Weehawken Dumpster.

Moore’s killing might not have attracted so much attention had it not followed a similar murder, that of 24-year-old Imette St. Guillen, who had concluded a night out with a few drinks at the Falls on Lafayette Street and was later found near the Belt Parkway, her face wrapped in tape.

Wolff went to the street that weekend and saw the usual scene: puddles of vomit, women without shoes, men brawling, bouncers hoisting and tossing drunks onto the sidewalk. “There was this girl—she had been walking toward Eleventh Avenue from B.E.D.,” Wolff recalls. “She had no shoes, she was drooling, and she looked like she was dead. She didn’t look like she was breathing. She just collapsed. Eventually a cop came over and lifted her head and got an ambulance, but she was lying on the ground for 25 minutes before one came.”

SUPER HAPPY LIQUOR BUFFET

1.5 liquor ounces = 1 beer = 1 drink. It all affects your Blood Alcohol Content the same.

Pangaea serves 17-22 drinks to one person (see BARGAIN BASEMENT above).

If you want a table, Pangaea forces you to buy 17-22 drinks (aka bottle service).

Once you are legally drunk after the first 4 drinks, it's okay, Pangaea lets you drink the rest of your 22 drinks.

The people pretending they can afford $300 for 17-22 drinks will want to get their moneys worth and end up 4-5 times the legal BAC limit. It’s like people at all you can eat buffets, they all load up big time. You see them wearing sweat pants or loosening their belts to make room for more eatin’. It will be the same for the Pangaea kids, they will come thirsty and fill their belly.

If someone shows up to Pangaea at midnight or 1 am they will try to cram as many drinks possible into the one or two hours before closing time.

The bottle service concept will work much differently in Austin than in NYC.

NYC does not stop early at 2 am, giving people more time to metabolize drinks. At 2 am in Austin you will have people guzzling liquor before their $300 bottle is taken away.

NYC is a pedestrian city, in Austin everyone drives, and most of the Pangaea clientele drive SUVs.

Those people drinking 17-22 drinks at Pangaea will get in their valet SUV and drive past all the club goers on sidewalks.

People have already died in NYC because of bottle service, how long before the first Austinite dies?

(Remember Handsome Joel? http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:143584 )

Pangaea tries to make buying 17 drinks at once a cool status symbol. Pangaea doesn’t care if this makes you die, they just want your money. If you die it’s all good, they’ll just let another person past the rope. Those ropes are blood red for a reason.

BARGAIN BASEMENT: $13-$18 drinks

Do the math here:

http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

The $250 bottles will have an automatic 20% minimum gratituty ($50) which makes it a $300 bottle.

A .75 liter bottle has 25 ounces or 17 1.5 ounce drinks. $250 bottle = $14-$15 drinks (+ $50 tip = $3 tip per drink)

A 1 liter bottle has 33 ounces shots or 22 1.5 ounce drinks. $250 bottle = $11-$12 drinks (+ $50 tip = $2.25 per drink)

Note: Some sizes rounded up to avoid the unpleasantness of thinking in random fractions.

Also, 1.5 ounces is a weak drink, most bars pour 2 ounces while Club Deville pours a solid 3-4. So if you pour a drink stronger than 1.5 ounces, your cost per drink only goes up!

wow - I'd like to go to your bar. Well it sounds like Star. Seriously, 38-42 shots is average for a liquor bottle at an establishment. I know, I know, you have to be thinking too many douchebags not knowing what's in their drink. Oh yeah, that's who hangs out here. It's not how much is in the drink, but how much you pay for it...that's what impresses the douchebaggettes

Shark Skinned Cod Piece would be a great name for a band.

40 shots from one bottle? I doubt you are truly ape-sized.

[The following is based on a hey-day pour at stronger drink places, like Deville or Barfly's-- in essence, the places that actually served drinks as strong as you make at home]

A Standard 3/4 liter bottle is almost exactly 25 ounces. Which is only 10 stiff-ish drinks, and 16.5 standard bar-sized shots.

Assuming bottle service is a full liter, which it should be, it's 33.8 ounces-- 13.5 stiff-ish drinks, and a little over 22 standard (not big) shots. So $250 is $18 a drink, or $11.25 a shot, before gratuity.

I know, I know: if you bought it, you don't care. Just that I bartended far too long to ignore the '40 shots per bottle' notion, no offense.

I have to go back to AA now.

Wow - you just busted out with Chess King; awesome.

Just a tale from the ultra-posh - true story, guy walks up to Qua on a Tuesday and is turned away because of a hat and tennis shoes. As he is leaving a brah of the bouncer shows in a hat and tennins shoes, he is promptly brought to the front of the line and sent in to have a snobbishly good time. Its been said before, at least places like this will maybe consolidate the tools from populating clubs/bars that regular folk like to go to.

As for the price of bottles, there are approx. 40 shots in a bottle and at $6.50 +tip a drink or more, it pretty much evens out. That is as long as all the tools wants to drink the same thing.

Bottle service works in cities like LA and New York because you have the opportunity to rub elbows with Gisele and JT. Austin does not have a large base of 21-35 year olds willing to throw down $250 on a bottles of Bombay every weekend. Try as it might to be ultra-posh, in a couple of months the crowd at Pangaea will be the usual tools you see at Union Park, The Marq, Prague, and Qua--yawn. Why can't Sky step up and have design at the same caliber as their music? They have amazing DJ roadshows, yet the last time I was there, it was like a midwest Chess King turned down the lights and added a dance floor.

wow, so glad they are stealing the name of that cool clothing store on the drag. that won't confuse anyone. what a bunch of asshats.

Jumanji!