Wanna Help Your Fave Bar?

As you may have heard, yes, we are closing our doors for 2 months. The focus for this time will be employee training and some renovations. So many of you have asked how you can help that we decided to make a big blog post with all of the info. It would be a delight to have your handiwork be a part of our space. Here is a Beloit Daily News article about the shut down.

5BAR is always open to customer donations, some items may not be a fit for us, but we always appreciate when there is an offer. Our style is MCM 60’s

Items we are looking for include:

• Patio furniture, umbrella tables, large thermometer, stringing lights

• Telephones from the 50-70’s

• Games like Connect 4, Operation, Klask

• Vintage furniture like couches or side tables

• Wonderful lamp shades

• Loads of Lava Lamps

• Mirror shadow boxes

• Plants, always plants, they need to thrive in low lighting

Machines and tools we would like to borrow for 2 months:

• Scaffolding (13’ tall)

• Extension ladders

• Concrete chisel, saw or jackhammer

• Truck or trailer, for random dump runs
  

Buckets of tasks we are seeking to accomplish by September 1st:

• Kitchen:

  • Demolish, removing (lifting) ceiling, allowing for storage above DJ Emu, expose brick wall down to bricks

  • Move hallway wall towards bathrooms, insert service window

  • Shelving for spirits

  • Water: (need insured contractor) mop bucket, dish washer, updated water heater, add water softener

  • Electricity: (need insured contractor) 220V for stove, 3 circuits for kitchen 1 along brick wall 1 along hallway wall and 1 spare single jbox for potential future needs

• Bathrooms:

  • Demo

  • Lift ceilings

  • Frame, doors, paint, floors

  • Water: (need insured contractor) 

  • Electricity: (need insured contractor) 

• Back room:

  • Ceiling:

    • Update cloud ceiling to white fiberglass

    • 4 fans, DJ Emu, 3 in the dance floor

    • Return air fan above dance floor, to circulate air from back to front

    • Reinforce ceiling for storage above DJ Emu

    • Insert bubble machine hook up by AC vent

  • Lighting / speakers

    • Snake / hub of cords for bands or performers

    • Add lighting options, for stage and dance parties

  • DJ Emu booth

    • Clean the shelves

    • Water: (need insured contractor) 

    • Electricity: (need insured contractor) 

  • Setup bowling machine, remove fridge

  • Old DJ Booth

    • Clean out storage

• Patio:

  • Level concrete and ground, seal or paint?

  • Finish fence

  • Plant garden into ground, along south fence for best visual impact

  • Water: (need insured contractor) bring in water supply for watering the garden

  • Electricity: (need insured contractor) basic outlets, add speaker, add hanging lights

• Security cameras:

  • Entrance, main area, hallway, back room, patio exit, patio, parking lot

• TV / projector menu screens:

  • Main area

  • Each bathroom above the doors

  • Karaoke TV

• Music / sound:

  • Centralize audio coming from kitchen hub, add a mic for “last call”

  • Zones:

    • Main bar area

    • Dance floor

    • Patio speaker

    • Bathrooms

    • Phone booth and retro phone hook ups?

    • Kitchen zone

  • Touch Tunes feeding the patio/bathrooms/phone booth?

• Outside:

  • Repair all bricks and mortar

  • Clean off paint on east facing wall to natural color, seal again

  • Clean, remove chipped concrete on the west and south walls, repaint

  • Repair gutters

  • Apartment windows need outside TLC such as caulking and paint

Free ways to help:

• Tell a friend about the bar

• ‘Check in’ online when you visit us next

• Leave a review online, on any / all social channels

• Follow our accounts and like the pictures, leave a comment

• Book our back room, or a private bartending session at your event