NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
How about The Overlook.
Or shorten to just Overlook
It’s on a hill, so howzabout High Times?
How about The Sand Bar & Grill?
Name yer bar? Look hyar, bars are waahld animals and yeh shudent keep them locked up as pets. Ah say let yer bar loose back intuh the waahld as Gawd intended!!
Cool’s
Deep Harbor Pub
The Harbor
The Famous Bar
Bar None.
The Dancing Pig Saloon (Claim that it was named for an ex=wife/former girlfriend)
Congrats!
YOu want to bring in the yuppie tourists on the cruises or the parents escaping their kids for a week. You’re gonna want t-shirts and baseball caps. Classic style, not “I got fcuked in X and all I got was this rad hat!!!111!!1” a classy logo will travel farther (NY, London, LA and the burbs) than anything else. It can be your ambassador and free advertising forever.
That said, I am going to give you - free of charge - what my bar would be if I ever owned a bar, which I won’t because I’m broke and I can’t stand cig smoke. Except I’d rather own a coffee joint. In Belize or Costa Rica.
But, I’m giving you this name anyways.
Cause that’s what dopers do, and if I ever do open a coffee shop in an exotic local during my future ex-pat days, I will be using this name. Just so’s you know. But, since my husband never wants to retire or retire out of the country, I ain’t going nowheres at all and it seems a shame to waste my daydream.
Ravenwood after Abner & Marion Ravenwood, from Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It’s classy, intriguing and sounds like a golf course. Waspy sounding, yet approachable. (Think about the kind of clients you want in your joint.)
BUT, there is more.
Window clings.
Not bumperstickers.
Window clings. Handed out for free or for bills larger than $100 (or whatever amount), everyone will get one or three, put it on their car and give you free advertising while stuck in traffic. Bumper stickers are permanent in the world of vehicular leases. ** Ravenwood.com.** Maybe with the Antigua oval . You want instant product identification. Ravenwood in West Indies…I’ve always wanted to go to Ravenwood(or whatever)/West Indies cause Bob from accounting had a great time…and if bob can afford the WI…then I can…and he said he’s never had a burger that was so superb…
BUT there is more…
Have a wall of pictures of people standing next to signs that are similar to See Rock City which could be bird houses ( that would be hard to pack in a suitcase and slightly tacky.) or just regular signs that say Ravenwood. Thus, implanting a mental image to everyone in Podunk or Big City, of " WTF is Ravenwood.com?"
Then have a emailer that just sends an email in the shitty winter northern months of " The weather today in Antigua is X…you really need to be here. If you come in within 30 days of receiving this and show it, you get a free beer." Or somethign similar. You’d be amazed on what people would do for freebies.
You could even consider investing in whatever your logo is for a golf club cover thingie. ( I call them club condoms.) Get free advertising in a wealthy demo graphic by making somethign like that. Golfers are nuts for shit like that.
On key days when cruise people are in the place, pay a couple of local hotties to spend casual time outside the bar or nearby water, like fishing. or something. Give the men soemthing to ogle at. This can work well with one or two nice looking guys. You want them to have a nice view with sexual overtones… 
I have had a lot of time to think about the marketing of this. can you tell?
Whatever you choose, think about your marketing to a larger segment than just the island. Whatever people take off the island will be your advertising. You gotta spend that initial money for logo, web space, t-shirt design to make any money long haul.
Anywhoooo, I’m so outta my league with this it probably would be in your best interest to print this out and burn it.
I wish you the greatest luck!
Once upon a time my family owned a little place in D.C. called The Sunset. There was a little picture of a sun setting over a sand dune, and I think there was a seagull off in the distance. It’s closed now and has been for years, but I have always remembered the name and thought it would be a great name for a restaurant/bar on or near the beach.
The place used to actually be called Fubar a couple of years ago. The guy that ran it had it as a real dive so that definitely wouldn’t work. I like the idea of using Deep Water in the name, but SO won’t go for it. He still likes Daybreak so I think we are sticking with that unfortunately. It’s not my favourite choice of a name, but I have some great ideas for the logo.
The t-shirts and baseball cap idea is a great one. I am a graphic designer so it will be up to me to design a good, classy looking logo, one that will travel well. I am also a very good cook and make the best burger in the world (according to all my friends), so I think the idea of cocktails and burgers at Daybreak in Antigua is hopefully one that will catch on. I also like the idea of sending emails to ppl in the States/UK with the weather info and freebie stuff. I just need to build up a good email database.
We are not planning on serving fried food, does anyone think that is a problem? In other words, our burgers/hot dogs/sandwiches will be served with potato salad and/or a garden salad rather than fries. I would like our food to be tasty and light. I want it kept simple to keep costs down plus deep frying is dangerous and horribly unhealthy. We will probably only have me and one or maybe two other staff members during the day, a bartender and a waitress. I will prepare the food. At night, SO and another friend, who will either be a partner or employee, will do the bar. This is so exciting, I can’t wait to get it up and running!
I take it that The Doper Bar was rejected right off the bat?
Alcoholics Notorious.
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Here’s a pic of the outside of it and you can see it in the background of this pic taken from the deck of a cruise ship. It’s the yellow building with the green roof.
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Your second picture makes me think it should be called The Pot O’ Gold. Notice how the rainbow ends right at it?
Wow, I was going to add on to that. I don’t know how I posted it before I was finished typing.
Anyway, I was going to say that it might not convey the sort of image that you want conveyed, but it cracked me up when I thought of it.
Good luck with the bar. Have fun!
I’m fond of naming it “The Old Pink Dog Bar” from the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I’m a rather silly person at naming things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magrathea#Old_Pink_Dog_Bar
Don’t let the customers read this though…
The Stratosphere
Come Back Inn (anyone from Melrose Park, IL. here?)
The Pub.
Or whatever the phyiscal street address is for your joint. Y’know 431 Dolphin way your place could be 431
or just42 The secret to Life, death and everything!
Right around them parts. You still around?
Nope, I used to live nearby. The Come Back Inn was a decent place, I’m sure it’s still there. 