Veronica R.
Google
I recently attended a comedy show, my first since having moved to Arizona a few months ago. I went to see Damon Darling at Mic Drop Mania. As a first time experience, here are my observations:
Pros:
1. The club is intimate, which is good and if the comedian is good, the club can be a full house.
2. There was air circulation flowing steadily throughout the club. I attended in mid-November so this might be questionable during other parts of the year.
3. There is no drink minimum requirement as most comedy clubs enforce this.
4. The staff was nice (at least on the night I attended).
Cons:
1. The seating setup is not ideal. It is more like cafeteria style and just doesn’t flow well with the layout of the club. The club’s layout is long and narrow, and for this, the seating tables should be round with chairs. This is excluding the built-in booths which are fine for groups. Hopefully the club’s seating can be rearranged because the current layout isn’t very good. When you compare it to other clubs, it takes away from the experience and ambiance.
2. I’m sure many people have mentioned this but the food/drink menu is very poor. There’s no variety and the available options provided are limited, honestly, unappealing. I reluctantly ordered some pizza because I needed to eat something but the taste was terrible—not fresh at all and stale. Additionally, the menu design is also terrible, unpleasant to the eyes and does not draw focus on any of the items one might consider ordering from. Some might see this as petty but as a creative myself, I’m all about marketing. This needs a definite redesign but overall, the menu needs far better food options for a club (e.g. chicken strips or tenders, fries, sliders or burgers, pretzel bites (no one needs two Bavarian pretzels, one maybe), or include foods like mac-n-cheese, or soups, etc. There’s many options that can be added but the club owner needs more creative restructuring. The menu also doesn’t provide non-alcoholic drinks, such as tea, lemonade, hot chocolate, or other beverages. In fact, it doesn’t really accommodate non-alcoholic drinkers and is assumed that all guests will drink alcohol, which is poor judgment. Your only options are water or alcohol. I couldn’t order any drinks from the menu except water, which was served in a small plastic cup.
I hope the club owner see this review and can make improvements where needed. There is potential but the owner has to want to tap into that potential for improvement.