I’ve raised my kids by myself doing this and I enjoy coming to work every day. It is a bit of an older crowd and it’s mainly males and I get along better with males than I do females.Another rea- son why I have been here so long is that it feels like family. I see the regulars more than I see my kids.” Given the older clientele at The Royal, not as
many problems arise from overindulgence /rowdy customers as you may see at larger urban bars, catering to a younger crowd. “It’s a change and I don’t know if it’s society or
whatever, there are no troubles in bars anymore. I shouldn’t say none, but there is very little and you can attest that to maybe having older cus- tomers,”said Remfert.“The young guys are trying
to impress somebody at times.We are busier sometimes on a 4 p.m.right on a Friday after work than at 2 a.m.We get a lot of the after-work crowd.” The Royal sponsors many things in town including Cornfest and curling bonspiels. Pickerell adds it is the blue collar crowd that mainly comes into The Royal with that clientele expanding when they hold special events like their widely anticipated oyster feed, with younger people coming
in.People often marvel from the larger urban centres how cheap liquor prices are in the smaller rural areas which The Royal caters to compared to the Edmontons and the Calgarys. “In the tavern, our drinks are pretty cheap. For
the liquor store, other places have advertised sales that are obviously cheaper than our shelf price, but I think and I hope that our regular priced items are no different than other places, and even cheaper in some circumstances,” said Pickerell,adding they do not bump up their prices when special events happen in town like Cornfest.“We are not here to take advantage of customers during those special events. If you do that, it may get you more money in the short term, but you may lose customers in the long term and you lose more in the end pissing off your regular customers. In fact, for special events, we usually go the other way. For Cornfest week- end,we spend more money because we give away free hamburgers and corn to fill the place.”
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