Fish bowls provide a versatile and inexpensive way to spice up drink promotions in a bar or tavern. Available in a variety of sizes, styles and materials, fish bowls can be tailored to fit different themes, drink recipes and holiday celebrations. Print your restaurant or tavern name and logo on the fish bowls and offer the bowls as a promotional piece to further market your establishment.
Instructions
1. Select a variety of different sized fish bowls ranging from 64 oz. to 2 1/2 gallons. Plastic fish bowls are inexpensive and won't shatter if broken, but glass fish bowls are more durable, won't scratch and can be cleaned and used indefinitely. Your promotions can revolve around individual fish bowl cocktails or extra-large group drinks. The latter may be popular with group parties, ladies' nights or bachelor/bachelorette parties.
2. Develop themed drinks suitable for individual as well as group consumption. Margaritas, mai tais, pina coladas and other sweet, fruity tropical concoctions look festive in glass fish bowls and can be promoted in line with a tropical or luau theme.
3. Develop a selection of garnishes. Elaborate fruit skewers of melon, pineapple, mango and strawberries interspersed with gummy fish or gummy octopi make good visuals for promotional posters and menu photos, as do paper umbrellas and extra large curly neon straws. Change out the garnishes for different holiday promotions, such as blueberries, strawberries and coconut for the Fourth of July, chocolate-dipped strawberries for Valentine's Day and candy canes at Christmas.
4. Change up the fish bowl contents by filling the bottom with clear or colored crushed ice and nestling tall shot glasses with tropical liquors in the center. As with fish bowl cocktails, fish bowl shots can be served individually or in group quantities. Consider using waterproof shot glasses with flashing LED lights encased in the bottom for an extra touch of flair. Photograph or video tape the flashing bowls for promotional uses.
5. Fill fish bowls with vodka-laced gelatin mix and gummy worms to create group Jell-O shots. Serve with a fish-shaped ice cream scooper.
6. Create nonalcoholic kiddie cocktails to be served in fish bowls. Use frozen lemonade, virgin strawberry daiquiri mix or fill with a Shirley Temple. As a promo, offer discounted adult fish bowl cocktails with the purchase of every kiddie fish bowl drink.
7. Carry the fish bowl theme promotion through other parts of the bar or tavern. Fill a large fish bowl with metallic basket filling paper and encourage patrons to drop in a business card for the chance to win free tropical fish bowl drinks.
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