Posted: 12/7/2013 10:46:23 AM EDT
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Are they still there in places I just don't eat? A forgotten relic from a time gone by?
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The problem was finding a jukebox with music in it that you wanted to hear. Seems easy enough. Make a couple dozen choices from the best of Motown, the 70's and 80's, add another dozen of everyone's favorite songs to dance to. Not long ago we asked a waitress to take a family photo of us while we were on vacation; while we were up (in a restaurant with few other patrons) an old song I like came on the radio; I was already holding our 2-year-old; after the picture was snapped we 'danced' for a minute and it was the most fun I'd had at a restaurant in a long time. |
Ah, jukeboxes. Once in the mid 80's (I was in junior high) a couple buddies and I were at a Pizza Hut that had a jukebox. We fed it 3 bucks worth of quarters and selected Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" 12 times. After the first few plays, people were starting to look around.... 
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as a guy who makes a living with jukeboxes, this guy is right, and they just don't make any money in restaurants. Quoted:
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Many jukeboxes are gone now because now you have to buy a ASCAP license to play shitty music in your place of business. as a guy who makes a living with jukeboxes, this guy is right, and they just don't make any money in restaurants. So where do you make your money with them? |
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Ah, jukeboxes. Once in the mid 80's (I was in junior high) a couple buddies and I were at a Pizza Hut that had a jukebox. We fed it 3 bucks worth of quarters and selected Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" 12 times. After the first few plays, people were starting to look around.... The local Pizza Huts both had them when I was a kid too. |
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At both the bars I worked at there were jukeboxes. Both have gone with digital jukeboxes now, and they are quite popular, as well as decent money makers.
ETA: One of the biggest problems is that with a jukebox you have a limited ability to control what music is played. Before 9:00 at one of the places I worked it was a family establishment, and no one wanted to hear gangster rap blaring with their kids there. After 9:00 everything was fair game, because it was more of a bar than a restaurant. Its kind of a Catch-22 for the restaurant/bar. |
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So where do you make your money with them? Quoted:
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Many jukeboxes are gone now because now you have to buy a ASCAP license to play shitty music in your place of business. as a guy who makes a living with jukeboxes, this guy is right, and they just don't make any money in restaurants. So where do you make your money with them? IN BARS |
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They've moved on to digital touchscreen machines hung on the wall. TouchTunes and AMI are the two major players I've seen. Generally it's 2 credits for $1, with local songs on the hard drive being one credit and music streamed on demand for two credits. You can essentially search for anything and, if it's licensed, it will play. Bartenders have the ability to skip songs, so if gangster rap comes on, they can skip it and tell you to go fuck yourself when you bitch about losing your credit. These companies also have apps for smartphones where you have an account and can control the jukebox. I'm sitting on my couch, but I can make the jukebox at my favorite bar three blocks away play Pavarotti right now. Yay technology.
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