The lounge is ready, the cigars are coming in and going into the humidors. All we need to do now is inventory several thousand cigars and get them into our Point Of Sale System (cash register) so we can start selling things.
We open on April 20th!
Grand opening is still a little up in the air. Last blog I said it was May 4th we may have to slip some. Several Cigar Manufacturers have let us know they want to participate in the Grand Opening. So we are going to have to juggle schedules a little.
It has been a busy week at the OCL (Ohlone Cigar Lounge). Last weekend the entire crew including Art our manager was in on Friday and Saturday setting up the lounge, getting the humidors delivered and set up and in general getting ready to open. This past week we got our big cigar order from JMG cigars and started stocking the humidors.
I also had a chance to finally meet face to face George of Rodrigo Cigars. He had a similar idea but a different twist than us. He decided to go create his own cigar line. I got to try a couple with George and WOW. What a great cigar. I feel lucky we get to carry the Rodrigo brand. The La Fortaleza is a perfect smoke for me. Strong and lots of flavor, great construction and burns well. You can see a nice review on Puff.com or A Cigar Smoker. If you want to try one of these in California you have to visit the Ohlone Cigar Lounge.
The lounge looks great. Jeff did a great job with getting the proper mood and paying attention to the details. The color scheme and lighting really make this feel like a comfortable place to hang out.
In the background you can see the lockers we will sell memberships for and two of the chairs. Like this picture because you can see the how well the colors go together and what the furniture looks like. It's too bad you can feel things over the web and see how comfy these chairs are.
This is the bar. We don't' have a liquor license. As soon as we open we are going to try and get one. Fremont has this ability to get a Conditional Use Permit. Basically they define how you can do things that are outside of what is normal. Like having a drink in a Cigar Lounge. You won't be able to come in off the street and drink but if you buy a cigar and want to have a beer or scotch with it why not. Lets hope the City understands the distinction. Notice there is a TV move the bar. Right now there are 3 TVs in the lounge. We expect to have one on if any but during football season We'll have the NFL package from DirecTV. We also had foresight to pull extra TV runs through the walls so we can easily add 2 more TVs into the lounge. Something I'll argue we should do during football season.
These are the chairs along the back row with nice mood lighting. we had a lot of discussions about having a small couch or English 2 Seater (love seat) and decided individual chairs are probably a better fit.
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As I said before we are now starting to get our Cigar, Pipe and accessories into the store and stocking them. Hopefully you get a sense of how large our selection will be. And we are looking for any recommendations of a smoke you like and want to make sure we carry. We have both distributors and direct connections so we can get almost any brand out there. Just send us an e-mail.
We open on April 20th!
Grand opening is still a little up in the air. Last blog I said it was May 4th we may have to slip some. Several Cigar Manufacturers have let us know they want to participate in the Grand Opening. So we are going to have to juggle schedules a little.
It has been a busy week at the OCL (Ohlone Cigar Lounge). Last weekend the entire crew including Art our manager was in on Friday and Saturday setting up the lounge, getting the humidors delivered and set up and in general getting ready to open. This past week we got our big cigar order from JMG cigars and started stocking the humidors.
I also had a chance to finally meet face to face George of Rodrigo Cigars. He had a similar idea but a different twist than us. He decided to go create his own cigar line. I got to try a couple with George and WOW. What a great cigar. I feel lucky we get to carry the Rodrigo brand. The La Fortaleza is a perfect smoke for me. Strong and lots of flavor, great construction and burns well. You can see a nice review on Puff.com or A Cigar Smoker. If you want to try one of these in California you have to visit the Ohlone Cigar Lounge.
The lounge looks great. Jeff did a great job with getting the proper mood and paying attention to the details. The color scheme and lighting really make this feel like a comfortable place to hang out.
In the background you can see the lockers we will sell memberships for and two of the chairs. Like this picture because you can see the how well the colors go together and what the furniture looks like. It's too bad you can feel things over the web and see how comfy these chairs are. |
| The Lounge From Mowry |
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| Bar with Lockers in the Background |
This is the bar. We don't' have a liquor license. As soon as we open we are going to try and get one. Fremont has this ability to get a Conditional Use Permit. Basically they define how you can do things that are outside of what is normal. Like having a drink in a Cigar Lounge. You won't be able to come in off the street and drink but if you buy a cigar and want to have a beer or scotch with it why not. Lets hope the City understands the distinction. Notice there is a TV move the bar. Right now there are 3 TVs in the lounge. We expect to have one on if any but during football season We'll have the NFL package from DirecTV. We also had foresight to pull extra TV runs through the walls so we can easily add 2 more TVs into the lounge. Something I'll argue we should do during football season.
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| Back Wall |
You get a great feel for the whole lounge in this picture. It is a 60" TV along the right wall. We wanted to go bigger but all the research we did showed this was the prefect size for the distance we have.
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As I said before we are now starting to get our Cigar, Pipe and accessories into the store and stocking them. Hopefully you get a sense of how large our selection will be. And we are looking for any recommendations of a smoke you like and want to make sure we carry. We have both distributors and direct connections so we can get almost any brand out there. Just send us an e-mail.
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