Business idea beside Nightclub and Bars?

Sup Veeky Forums, I've found a commercial space up for lease downtown where I live on the main street that has all the clubs and bars. Conditions are as follows :

>Around 175 sq ft, medium sized room with 2 wide windows
>New hardwood floors and paint job
>Still quite industrial / commercial, will need some work to make it feel homely if that is what's needed for the business
>$500/Month after taxes, monthly lease so I just pay month to month
>Mens/Wmns washrooms every floor, unfortunately no shower
>Literally 10 meters from one of the biggest clubs in the city

I really think this is a good opportunity to start a small business there, but am having trouble with ideas.

I was thinking I could furnish it and make it super chill / comfy, have a small fridge with beers, tv with video games, maybe karaoke, nice couches, etc. And maybe making it a space where people can come chill before / after their night out, or maybe even just to bring girls back for a quickie (there are like 10 clubs on this street within a 10 min walk from each other)

But idk how I could make this work logistically, booking timeslots or whatever or how exactly I would make money. Maybe I could resell beers for cheap on the downlow so people can come chill for cheap drinks instead of spending lots at bars? Place to crash for people after they go out? There are also alot of international foreign exchange students here, I feel like they (mostly Japanese) could be easier to cater to as well from my experience dealing with alot of them at a friend's business.

Got any ideas guys?

Some other ideas I've had are

>Games / chilling lounge for international student groups / DUDE WEED LMAOs
>Blowjob parlor
>Kneepad rental service

A gym with ample locker space.

Make it somewhere the lifting obsessed bros can workout, shower and hit da club looking to satisfy their primitive urges.

There's 2 gyms on this street so that's not an option, also no showers

Do a place that makes really good drunk snacks for cheap.

My brain is good at "branding" type stuff, I had an idea for an old turn of the century "Strong man" styled and branded gym. No idea if it would actually work though

Don't think it would work desu, the target market ATM for fitness is 15-22 year old ankle showing kids with tight fades + women wearing yoga pants and Nike sneakers.

I do think coffee is the new beer though, that never fails.

Climbing walls and ceiling over a ball pit.

There's a ton of food spots around too, like kebab places open til super late and I think it would be too hard to compete.

I've never run a business before (I'm 22) but I've worked for a friend's rental business, so I am looking for ideas that involve a service or a rental type system (hostels, sports equipment rental, karaoke for example, are "renting" gear or time) instead of selling a product which would be alot more investment and I'd have to keep putting money into the production of said consumable product whereas rentals you just keep it running, oversee management / maintenance and that's it

OH and there are also a fuckton of rich Chinks in my city, and a ton of them shop all the time at a luxury department store that just opened right across the street from this location as well so there is the traffic if only I could find a way to lure them in and take their money

Funny thing is in this same building on the ground floor there is a tiny tiny suite that leads right out onto the street and this guy opened a coffee shop there (he was jobless, his wife made the money and gave him the meams to start this because he had nothig else to do) and he was severely autistic and knew nothing about running a business. It was such a good spot but nobody went because he made it look like shit and would creep everyone out with his autism when they went.

Currently it's being remodelled, think someone else bought it out and would be interesting to see how it performs after it reopens, givem the location and novelty of a "tiny hole in the wall" type cafe

I went to a local after hours thing that had a ball pit room and have to admit it was the most fun I'd had in a while at the time but I think I need to do something that is multifaceted / allows for multiple businesses / streams of income that the space can be used for.

Make it a dark club and make sure you play decent techno/minimal/house.

For christ's sake, man, do some market research.

Investigate the online communities pertaining to this area and figure out what they want. Suggest ideas and see how they respond.

>For christ's sake, man, do some market research.
This. But don't do it all from your computer: pound the pavement. Start going around taking photographs of the businesses which are packet with people, start making notes of what times they're busy. Look at the photos: how are the people dressed, go in to the business, look at the visual merchandising, see how the staff treat customers.

If one doughnut shop is full, and the other isn't ask yourself why, hell, ask the people behind the counter why.

Eventually you'll just fall into an idea for a value proposition you can build your business around -- maybe what is really missing is cold beverages, maybe what people want is to buy a book for the train journey home... I dunno. Find out.

you mention rich Chinese: what gimmicky shit can you sell then, something which is quintessentially American Kitsch and yet has enough red and dragons and gold on it to satisfy them?

I always thought it might be cool if there was a pseudo nightclub for teenagers. Like serve mocktails, have music, lights etc. An alternative to going to malls or Starbucks (a LOT of kids just go to starbucks). Probably terrible idea though. Also kids stopped hanging out irl.

Have it a place where people can chill and play games. Not video games though. Social games. Like beer pong, that hoop throwing arcade game (with the actual ball) have 2 of them next to eachother so people can compete. Giants connect 4 boards, skeeball.

And call it predrink

karaoke box, doubles as a lounge/blowjob parlor place OP wanted to tap into

I could see that as a modern Chuck E. Cheese for gen z kids. The interior would have to be done right. Also there's the fact that so many of them are glued to screens, you need a drug to ween them off

24 hour Coffee place/cigarette sales and snacks would be the best bet. Space is really too small to do anything else.

In my town, there is a tiny bar that just specializes in mixed hard liquor shots. It's a "Pre-Game" bar, and meant to get people drunk before they hit the clubs. Just research the latest trendy shots that appear on Pinterest and other places that research that shit for you. I mean shit like the colorful girl drinks you see on facebook and social media. Guaranteed you will be packed Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

They might already have this in your area OP but a pool hall or just a bar with nice pool tables does pretty well. There's a lot of people that want to play on decent tables and will pay per hour as well as for drinks because most bar tables are shitty(fucked up felt, broken sticks, cracked balls) and it's hard to own your own table.
So if you have the opportunity and can get the word out you'd have a pretty steady amount of business.

They have those already, pure cancer. Pretty sure the one in my city died out

Kids just sneak in drugs and alcohol and then you've got to deal with a bunch of minors fighting, fucking and overdosing in your property.

>I found a printing press for sale, what can I do with it?
>Somebody's selling a used bulldozer, what business can I start with it?
>Saw a gravel sorting machine at auction, how can I make money with that?

You're working backwards, OP. If you don't already have a business that needs that space you're not going to succeed in trying to invent one to fill it.

>rich Chinks

There you have it. Open up a fucking slotmachine casino. Chinese are gambling addicts.

Trust me OP.

Dont go into the nightclub and bar business, it'll ruin you.

>you will have no social life
>unpredictable customers, one can be the nicest guy ever offering you cigarettes and shit and the other guy is pissing on your floors and trying to start fights.
>The overhead costs are waaaay too high, think about the money that you need to put in for all the lighting, not to mention the rent you need to pay towards the greedy landlords.

Gen Zer here, I have no idea how you would attract tons of people from my generation. You'd have to add something that most of us don't have in our homes, and it's going to have to be tech-related, and if you want it to be a social spot, you'll have to add more games.

I'd personally would try to make an arcade that keeps track of people's overall scores on a set of games, and display the info publicly for competition, and offer some award at the end (like free tokens/credits, a free meal, etc.).

Also, add games that are multi-player but don't require you to look/play right next to another person, I know it seems weird but I noticed tons of people within my age range (including the younger ones) that'd rather play with a person online, as long as they can avoid contact with them.

Btw, I still don't understand how you would target your audience. Like you already mentioned, it's impossible to make some people within Gen-Z leave their devices.

I usually spend 13-15 hours online, I make my own food so I won't have to go out, and I also order tons of things via online. The only reason why I'd go to your business is if a family member recommended it.

Meant that for both of you, if the OP thinks of doing a modern Chuck-E-Cheese

>keeps track of people's overall scores on a set of games, and display the info publicly for competition
That sounds awful. Its one thing when you are online and anonymous another when its 'real' life.

Specialty coffee shop

my man

user, is this place in San Diego...?

Same in my city there is a bar where you only can get shots. There about 100 differnt ones and you pay 1,50 eur if you spin a wheel and pick a random one and more if you want one specific.

I think a hookah lounge would be perfect. Ambient lighting and comfy chairs.

Whenever people get fucking tired from the club they can unwind there. You can take reservations too. There's a successful one in my town that requires $10 spent per head, so if you walk in with a party of 5 you need to spend $50. Usually $15 for a hookah, then $5/hr to use the video game console or a flat fee to watch a movie on the tv, then snacks and gatorade.

>175 sqft
wait, is this like some shared office space? I'd really need a picture to understand this better. Because it sounds impossible. Is there a door and street facing entrance?

maybe you could be the club's canteen

If it's really just a tiny fucking room you could sell club merchandise and drug test kits, condoms, plan b, gum, tiny mouth washes, cigarettes, tiny hair sprays, tiny hair gels, tiny body sprays, tiny colognes, tons of fucking cheap button up shirts from tj maxxx ($8) and resell for $20 (so many drunk people spill shit on themselves and I've sold mine to some idiot for $50 once outside a club).

what city are you in OP? you dont have to answer if you're afraid of doxxing yourself or even are just having a good LARPing, I understand.

cont

also OP watch it with the flophouse idea. you may think it'll be bar hookups but quickly you'll become a destination spot for prostitutes and their johns. that'll bring all sorts of LEO attention you dont want.

you're gonna have to make a few "campaign contributions" to get a liquor license depending on what city are in, dont jeopardize it by harboring illegal activity.

I'm in Vancouver, Canada

Yeah I realized after getting a few replies that it would be better to offer a better description of this thing because alot of ideas ITT wouldn't work

Yeah it sorta is a commercial office space, but it's an older building and super chill, a few consultants / lawyers, media guilds, etc.

I think stuff involving liquor would be out of the question because it'd be way too much work and the building owner wouldn't be cool with it. Too much potential for trouble.

Hookah lounge sounds decent actually, and there is a downstairs underground suite going up for sale in the building soon as well that used to be a hair salon so it might be better for something like that

Hard to see the scale of the room but pic related, floors would be replaced with hardwood

Actually the club right next to this place is majority brown / middle eastern people, so a hookah joint might be really good

The only thing is though this building is quite inconspicuous and easy to pass by without noticing, needs a card key / intercom to access the main door after 5pm on weekdays and all the time on weekends, so advertising it / making it a "spot" might be a little difficult as the building from the outside just looks like a lobby with an elevator. Maybe sandwich boards etc could work, or i can hand out flyers in the club line outside with some kinda promotional deal.

this sounds like a total deal breaker for a late night business where a lot of your traffic will be walk-ins.

i was just in vancouver, maybe a pool hall? i don't think the chinks would be down but hell, it's something to do at night, pool and maybe some beers, you could even throw hookah in which would make the place kind of weird, haha. I actually would stick with one but if you go with the hookah thing try and be a bit more original by maybe offering backgammon or jenga at tables. Of course you would need a liquor license to serve drinks and such if you plan on doing that.

as for this why not just have a guy outside with a promotional sign. you hire the guy to just stand out there and encourage people to come in. Make him friendly looking maybe, I don't really know which kind of dude attracts the most business.

also if you do use karaoke maybe try to make it more "asian style" by having a karaoke in each room rather than one huge karaoke, and have a huge selection of Chinese and American songs standard. This might not work as well since I'm guessing you don't really have a lot of rooms to work with but I think the chinks would love to have something they are used to back home.

he's trying to run a very small business and margins will be hella tight, he can't afford to hire a doorman that does nothing but solve a problem that's easily solved by a better location.

sorry op, this is an office space meant to be used for such.

Blowjob parlor + Night club + Slotmachine/Casino.
Pretty sure the rich chinks will come flying.

Lease it to asian massage parlour operators so they can give handjobs to drunks.

Sell clubbing accessories

>I don't really know which kind of dude attracts the most business.

girls user

they are called girls