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TGI Fridays plans on living up to its name this year by relaunching its bar, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/tgi-fridays-plans-to-revamp-its-bars-as-it-prepares-to-go-public-again.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">according to CNBC</a>. The revamp includes allowing the service of a beer and a shot at the same time and a new partnership with actor Ryan Reynolds' gin company, <a href="http://www.aviationgin.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aviation Gin</a>. The brand will also improve music, lighting and seating to encourage socializing.&nbsp;<a href="https://1851franchise.com/pf-changs-late-night-concept-looks-to-tap-into-gen-zs-desire-for-entertainment-2711483#stories">As younger consumers demand convenient off-premise food occasions</a>, casual dining sales and traffic is declining at a rapid rate. To better compete, TGI Fridays plans to take advantage of one of the casual dining segment’s major advantages: the bar. In fact, 30% of Fridays' $2.1 billion in sales come from the bar. This development is also part of the company's plan to <a href="https://1851franchise.com/tgi-fridays-to-go-public-in-380m-deal-with-allegro-merger-2711579">go public after 45 years following its November sale to Allegro Merger</a>.In June of last year, TGI Fridays <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tgi-fridays-launches-americas-longest-happy-hour-with-new-fridays-five-bar-menu-300669275.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">launched America’s Longest Happy Hour and a Five Bar menu</a> featuring $5 beer, wine and clean-label premium cocktails. Other franchisors have been honing in on improving alcohol offerings, <a href="https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/content/prnj-sso/prnj-login-page.html?fromURI=https%3A%2F%2Fidm.cision.com%2Fapp%2Fcisionn0151c_prnewswiremediaforjournalists_1%2Fexk2vqyy7ypaAdkm42p7%2Fsso%2Fsaml&utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">including Applebee's happy hour deals</a> and recent partnership with Valentine Distilling Co. to offer two craft cocktails in 65 of its store locations. <a href="https://www.delish.com/food-news/a23834008/ihop-first-location-with-bar/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IHOP added its first full-service bar at one of its Phoenix locations</a>.&nbsp; Recently, <a href="https://1851franchise.com/pf-changs-late-night-concept-looks-to-tap-into-gen-zs-desire-for-entertainment-2711483">P.F. Chang's launched a new restaurant concept named Chang's After Dark</a> in Miami to provide a late-night destination with exclusive bar and dining menu, bottle service and live entertainment.&nbsp;Despite alcohol consumptions in America falling 0.8% in 2018, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/americans-drank-less-alcohol-in-2018-for-the-third-straight-year?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reported by Bloomberg</a>, alcohol sales <a href="https://smallbusiness.chron.com/proper-gross-profit-bar-inventory-76197.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">typically yield generous profit margins</a> for restaurants. Hopefully, this will be the case for TGI Fridays, which saw <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/tgi-fridays-plans-to-revamp-its-bars-as-it-prepares-to-go-public-again.html?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">year-over-year sales fall</a> nearly 7% at company-owned locations and more than 8% at franchised locations. <a href="https://www.nrn.com/casual-dining/tgi-fridays-closing-several-california-restaurants?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=tgi-fridays-plans-on-revamping-its-bar-to-ignite-alcohol-sales-2712048" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">It also just closed a number of California restaurants.</a>As full-service, fast casual and QSR dining chains continue to look for new ways to bring the <a href="https://1851franchise.com/third-party-delivery-apps-continue-to-take-over-the-game-2710464">delivery-obsessed younger generation</a> into the restaurant, appealing to the late-night crowd could be what TGI Fridays needs to stay ahead.

TGI Fridays Plans on Revamping Its Bar to Ignite Alcohol Sales

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TGIF! The casual dining brand is hoping to combat declining sales and traffic by appealing to the nightlife crowd. 


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