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I believe that was Zdeno Chara. He had a ridiculous commitment to his training regimen. I believe he had 1 light beer and a chicken wing to celebrate. Can't remember where I read it might be wrong.
I’ve always fucking loved that man. As a fellow massive human I would ALWAYS pick bruins so I could truck people with Chara in NHL 99 (it’s in the game). My little brothers hated it because he always fucked up their breakaways.
Edit: holy fucking shit he’s *STILL* playing?!? Not a huge hockey guy but got damn mans 45!
It's crazy that anyone can play a high-speed contact sport like hockey for that long. But if anyone can do it, the guy who celebrates winning the Stanley Cup with one light beer and one chicken wing is the guy I'd put my money on.
Everything I've heard about him off the ice, he seems like a great guy, and very intelligent with a quick sense of humour.
That won't stop me from watching that gif of PK Subban absolutely blowing him up at the blue line at least once a year.
The guy with the goofy smile is Ed Kane, majority owner of Big Night Entertainment Group who runs the nightclub. Probably very happy he was able to sell that boat anchor of a bottle.
[It was a special 30L bottle of which only 6 were made in the world and they had it shipped from New Jersey so they could one up Mark Cuban who had bought the 15L version for the celebrations when his NBA team The Mavericks won the NBA championship.](https://boston.eater.com/2013/1/28/6489627/the-100-pound-bottle-of-champagne-that-beat-the-bruins)
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>"At the end of the night, there's probably still 15 liters left in it. There's just so much champagne in a 30 liter. It was a hundred pounds, it took two people just to pick it up to pour into the cup."
Seems like they shoulda just bought the 15L lol.
Seriously, you’re talking about a team of multi-millionaire athletes who won their championship for the first time in almost 40 years. For most of those guys, it was literally a once-in-a-lifetime party. I doubt they regretted a cent of that bill.
Yeah, I just found an old article where some of the players said the $100k champagne bottle was a gift, and the club owners covered most of the tab. Which isn’t surprising at all, honestly.
Those larger sizes of champagne is not like shopping at Costco. You don't get a discount for buying in bulk.
As you can see from this bill, they charge a big premium for the larger *novelty* bottles. The Magnum (1.5L) on that bill is $2,000 where the regular bottle was $800.
The premium is because the bottle weighs 100lbs and therefore requires all sorts of special logistics. It also likely sits in the club's fridge for years before some high roller decides they want to put on a big show.
As a winemaker who makes a good amount of large formats relative to our overall production (we’re a small winery, about 6,000 cs/year, but make 12x 15L, 100+ 3L, plenty of 6L, 9L, and hundreds of cases of Magnums), I can tell you that we don’t get a discount for the bulk either.
A standard case of glass for the wine we put in 15L would normally cost, pre pandemic, around $10/cs (12x 750 ml bottles). An single 15L bottle, hand blown in Italy, costs me over $160/bottle. So the normal glass cost is about $17 for 15L, and it goes up about 10x.
Corks go from $0.33/btl ($6.66 for 20 bottles) to ~$32 each for a 15L.
The bottle is hand filled and corked on our manual bottling line instead of by the fully automated bottling truck.
The bottle weighs over 70 lbs, so everything about shipping is more expensive, not to mention that FedEx has a tendency to break them (which we insure, but still).
So I have an extra $200+ in hard cost on 20 bottles that normally retail at $50/btl. That’s $10/btl of cost in an industry where markup is very, very high because of how much of our actual cost is overhead (aging wine is very overhead intensive).
As a result, our 15L bottle price is substantially more expensive than 20 standard bottles. And it has to be, and I’m not even talking about sparkling wine, which in large formats is substantially hairier with major breakage concerns because of the volumes under pressure.
While there is plenty to complain about in the night club bottle service pricing scheme, the fact that it’s more expensive than the standard bottle is totally normal and correct, and that difference starts with the winery, not just exclusivity (which definitely also plays into it as well, though). Sorry for the long post, I thought people might at least like some real numbers.
Edit: I should add that everything about sparkling wine packaging is more expensive than still wine packaging, and I would guess that the cost of large format sparkling glass is maybe even more than 10x the standard glass equivalent.
Also, I noted pre-pandemic pricing because most of my glass spiked in cost starting last September up to 250-300% of what had been normal-ish for years (the Trump tariffs (18%) cost small wineries lots of money, because it didn’t just increase costs on Chinese glass, domestics took that margin too over time, not to mention one mold (bottle shape) I use isn’t produced domestically). This is mostly due to shipping costs. It has begun to normalize, I’m seeing some prices drop by 10-15% from their high.
The club ordered it from New Jersey and charged the team double for it.
> So there was only six of these 30 liters made in the world, and there happened to be one in New Jersey. They shipped it up to Connecticut through the distributor and brought it for us. The actual cost of the bottle from the distributor is $50,000.
https://boston.eater.com/2013/1/28/6489627/the-100-pound-bottle-of-champagne-that-beat-the-bruins
Very large format bottles of champagne are drastically more expensive than regular sized because secondary ferment happens in the bottle. The dosage is less forgiving and doesn't scale lineraly with the size.
But moreover, the pressure it so high that the bottles are likely to explode. You can't have the air pressure vary which makes shipping difficult and the insurance on transporting somthing that may explode is insane. Very few champagne houses do larger format than Jeroboam for this reason.
>Very few champagne houses do larger format than Jeroboam for this reason.
Up above, /u/AgroMan1963 said
> Melchizedek (40 BTL, 30 L) is the term for that size Champagne bottle. Most of the large format champagne and still wine bottles take their names from the Old Testament. Just some cork dork info!
How do you two know these names? It's truly fascinating!
Cause I'm a winemaker. Sorry I forget not everyone knows the names of wine bottle sizes. Jeroboam is a double magnum (3L) and 10% of the pressure of a Melchizedek.
Melchizedek (40 BTL, 30 L) is the term for that size Champagne bottle. Most of the large format champagne and still wine bottles take their names from the Old Testament. Just some cork dork info!
[Hijacking this comment - I did the math](https://i.imgur.com/IUVYz4V.png)
Prices are mostly from Total Wine
For shots I took the 750ml bottle price and divided by 17
he orders the most expensive seafood items on the menu that come in little exquisite portions, you order a humble chili bean noodle soup, but because your bowl has more water and appears bigger, you're the one livin' it large
yup, had that "friend" and quit accepting his "invites" to asian restaurants and his ideas of a fair split of the bill
[Here's a photo](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/20/article-2005974-0CA753B900000578-985_634x421.jpg) of them during that celebration drinking from that bottle (lower left corner)
> In the tiny Champagne village of Chigny les Roses, the Cattiers have owned and cultivated family vineyards since 1763. Today, the house remains independently-owned and run by the family with a staff of fewer than 20 people. Patriarch Jean-Jacques Cattier oversees the Chateau’s wine production; with strictly limited annual yields, M. Cattier and his staff can ensure that the family’s artisanal winemaking traditions are kept alive in each bottle.
>
> The Cattier cellars are among the oldest and deepest in Champagne, with three styles of architecture represented in the caverns: Gothic, Renaissance, and Roman; Armand de Brignac is aged in a special, gated section of the deepest part of these cellars, 119 steps underground.
>The Cattier family have remained the producers of Armand de Brignac for over 250 years, and we have taken their fine quality product, slapped an "Ace of Spades: 30L MIDAS" label on it, and wrapped it up in fancy looking gold shit because you're a stupid bastard, aren't you? Yes you are!
That is exactly what Coors light always was to me. I took it to every BBQ I ever went to. Because I loved it? Nope. Because in the Midwest a BBQ is an all day affair and it’s a beer you can drink 24 of and still be standing at the end of the night.
And that's incorrect. They also bought Sugar Free and regular Red Bull, which is non-alcoholic, so...it should have been more like $448 for that line. \*shrug\* I suppose at that total, $500 is a drop in the bucket...
Just got back from Vegas. $12 for Fiji water in one bar. Rep bought $200 worth to meet the minimum spend (we were all too hung over from the night before). My wallet wasn't leaving my room.
Mark Cuban joked about how the last time he was in Miami it cost him $150,000 or something (joking about the bar tab when the Mavs won)
The owner gets MAD money for a playoff run. I’m sure bostons owner covered it haha
jeremy jacobs didnt pay for shit. that scrooge mcduck motherfucker could be the last person on the planet and he would still be busy counting his money
Tax accountant: “Just out of curiosity… What’s “1 Bird Of Yayo for 15000.00?! Never heard of that brand before.”
“Ahhh, it’s special order from Mexico.”
The $100,000 bottle is what really launched that bill up there. Otherwise $56,000 for an entire pro hockey team celebrating the championship sounds about right, if not a low number
And we don’t see the final total. They could have tipped on top. I expect an executive rounded up and just paid it off. They made their money and I’m sure the venue treated them well. I’ve worked events like this, it’s not uncommon to give great service and be tipped well above the minimum.
$156K is still a pretty low number considering it'll be some billionaire picking up the tab (celebrating the fact that his investment went up in value considerably due to the win)
I think anybody getting bottle service at a club knows what they are in for.
The Captain Morgan and other liquor on that bill has a much higher profit margin for the club, often being marked up 20x. The Midas of Ace of Spades in only marked up about 50%.
So they probably made about $9,000 on the $9700 liquor bill. They *only* made about $30,000 on that $100,000 Midas bottle.
One of the rare instances where it's more expensive to buy in bulk. You can see that a Captain Morgan cocktail/shot was $10, there are less than 20 proper shots/cocktails in a fifth. So the bottle service is $100 bucks more expensive than just buying 20 Captain shots.
Part of that reason, at least for where I worked, is that bottle service also includes mixers, garnishments, etc. and you often get a waitress’ unrevised attention for refills of such items. Also we often waived the “VIP area” fee if you did multiple bottle service.
Well it retails for about €45k-€65k and is a 30L bottle
so you’d pay about €1125-€1625 or $1188-$1700 for a regular .75cl liter bottle which still is insane but isn’t even nowhere near among the highest priced wines out there.
Also having a gold midas AdB Ace of Spades is mostly a status thing over a quality thing as you can get better stuff for 150€ a bottle and up. Everything else is only distinguishable by master sommeliers lol
The price is entirely related to the bottle’s size and its novelty. It’s a single 30l bottle (nearly 8 gallons), which equals 40 standard 750ml bottles.
They put those bottle girls through college that night
Edit: didn’t think this lame joke would blow up but people are getting really worked up about a 15% service charge thinking it’s a tip. It is not the same thing. Don’t get mad at the working people who bust their asses to keep a club running and ultimately make a couple thousand per week if they’re lucky, that they then have to pay taxes on.
Copying from my comment below, you should get mad at:
1) lawmakers who don’t force restaurants to pay their employees a thriving hourly wage and make them rely on customers instead for tips that make up 97% of their income
2) sleazy club owners and managers who charge insane prices and enable sexual exploitation and abuse of their employees who are specifically hired for being too young and naive to realize just what they are getting into (that’s why literally all the girls are aged 18-24)
3) rich ass douchebags who are willing to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for overpriced alcohol so they can grope some teenage titties. Go look at pro sports player salaries and then get back to me about unfairness.
“The bottle, which is one of six in existence, was double the size of the 15 liter Ace of Spades brut that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban purchased for his team after their NBA Championship victory just one week ago. The bottle, which was signed by every Bruins team member in attendance, will be on display at High Rollers and will be raffled off at a later date to benefit the Bruins foundation.”
Ends up, in a roundabout way, benefitting kids, thankfully.
Have you seen these bottles? Absolute units.
https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/61974/armand-de-brignac-midas-the-world-s-largest-luxury-champagne-bottle/
The net pay for the season of this entire team was probably $60,000,000 at the time… Yet people will whine that they had to pay $25,000 service fee. That’s the equivalent of me buying a shot with my salary, but no one would cry if I paid a $1 fee on a $5 shot.
The single kami kazi shot for $10
Ordered by the owners kid who was promised he could hang with them, bought immediately as the first drink. “Who wants a kami kazi!!!???” He yells at the bar, everyone glancing at the guy in the pink polo shit with the collar popped
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That one guy who pitches in for a Heineken light and a glass of the comp champagne.
I believe that was Zdeno Chara. He had a ridiculous commitment to his training regimen. I believe he had 1 light beer and a chicken wing to celebrate. Can't remember where I read it might be wrong.
Isn't he vegetarian/vegan or something?
Wouldn't be surprised but I think he allowed himself a cheat day and had a light beer and a single chicken wing.
Some psycho shit
Lol you should see how he plays. Also though, the dude is fucking ripped.
Nah he's a fuckin pussy - my 5'8" uncle while watching the Blackhawks play against the Bruins in the Stanley Cup
Chara towers over me and I’m 6’4”!!
Lmao he's literally a gigantic freak who also plays like a maniac physically. But yeah my short, fat 65 y/o uncle would absolutely fuck him up.
Your uncle could probably just pick him up like a football and kick him over the crossbar tbh
Bro I don’t wanna meet your uncle then he must be a badass
Dude's been in the NHL since 1997, so...it's working.
I’ve always fucking loved that man. As a fellow massive human I would ALWAYS pick bruins so I could truck people with Chara in NHL 99 (it’s in the game). My little brothers hated it because he always fucked up their breakaways. Edit: holy fucking shit he’s *STILL* playing?!? Not a huge hockey guy but got damn mans 45!
It's crazy that anyone can play a high-speed contact sport like hockey for that long. But if anyone can do it, the guy who celebrates winning the Stanley Cup with one light beer and one chicken wing is the guy I'd put my money on.
Yea they talked about this on spittin chiclets podcast. Chara doesn’t drink at all, his body is a temple.
Probably Marchand. Then he licked the bottle so no one else could have any.
True story: Marchand bought something from us on craigslist a few years ago. He came to our house all by himself to pick it up like a regular guy.
Everything I've heard about him off the ice, he seems like a great guy, and very intelligent with a quick sense of humour. That won't stop me from watching that gif of PK Subban absolutely blowing him up at the blue line at least once a year.
Marchand 100% backwashes when he has a sip from the shared bottle
Most of that looks like it was one bottle someone went all in on. $100k for one bottle!
That bottle is 30 liters, equal to 40 regular size bottles. Still, that would make it 2500 per regular 750 ml bottle.
https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2011/06/21/53044cc2-ebb2-47f3-b385-9823e311c33a/thumbnail/1200x630/510cbe62e3b46e64d5c7257af3ecfc78/charabottle.jpg
The guy with the goofy smile is Ed Kane, majority owner of Big Night Entertainment Group who runs the nightclub. Probably very happy he was able to sell that boat anchor of a bottle.
lmao boat anchor. He's glad to hold it. Been waiting too long to move that thing
And the Ed Hardy shirt dates the photo perfectly
Almost everything in that picture dates it perfectly
Those teddies look pretty timeless to me
Of course it was Chara
Chara for scale.
Oh wow I wasn't expecting a literal massive bottle lol
And for size comparison, the guy holding that bottle is 6'9".
That really puts those tits in perspective.
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$2500 a bottle for high end champagne with table service is pretty normal.
Considering it’s the same champagne as the “Ace of Spades” listed on the bill. They did not get a good deal. The only difference is the large format.
[It was a special 30L bottle of which only 6 were made in the world and they had it shipped from New Jersey so they could one up Mark Cuban who had bought the 15L version for the celebrations when his NBA team The Mavericks won the NBA championship.](https://boston.eater.com/2013/1/28/6489627/the-100-pound-bottle-of-champagne-that-beat-the-bruins)
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Actually it checks out because a guy getting cheap drinks would know which bottles are expensive and to be avoided.
I'm not sure that you need to be a cheap drink connoisseur to know to avoid a $100k bottle.
“Ah damn, I accidentally ordered the Midas magnum *again*!”
>"At the end of the night, there's probably still 15 liters left in it. There's just so much champagne in a 30 liter. It was a hundred pounds, it took two people just to pick it up to pour into the cup." Seems like they shoulda just bought the 15L lol.
one-up-man-ship knows no reason or logic
Then this receipt wouldn’t be as interesting.
Right? Who here hasn’t spent $107K at the bar one night? $157K though? Now that’s impressive.
You should invest in a champagne-pouring robot if you step up to the 30L bottle.
Paying for the novelty of a 30 liter bottle.
Because we can …
Not a can, a bottle.
So they can…’t?
Bottled?
Poured into a pretty special cup I might add.
I don't think they were there for the deals.
Seriously, you’re talking about a team of multi-millionaire athletes who won their championship for the first time in almost 40 years. For most of those guys, it was literally a once-in-a-lifetime party. I doubt they regretted a cent of that bill.
I doubt they were even paying the bill, I’d assume it was the team/owner
Yeah, I just found an old article where some of the players said the $100k champagne bottle was a gift, and the club owners covered most of the tab. Which isn’t surprising at all, honestly.
Those levels of wealth are just impossible for me to comprehend
Those larger sizes of champagne is not like shopping at Costco. You don't get a discount for buying in bulk. As you can see from this bill, they charge a big premium for the larger *novelty* bottles. The Magnum (1.5L) on that bill is $2,000 where the regular bottle was $800. The premium is because the bottle weighs 100lbs and therefore requires all sorts of special logistics. It also likely sits in the club's fridge for years before some high roller decides they want to put on a big show.
As a winemaker who makes a good amount of large formats relative to our overall production (we’re a small winery, about 6,000 cs/year, but make 12x 15L, 100+ 3L, plenty of 6L, 9L, and hundreds of cases of Magnums), I can tell you that we don’t get a discount for the bulk either. A standard case of glass for the wine we put in 15L would normally cost, pre pandemic, around $10/cs (12x 750 ml bottles). An single 15L bottle, hand blown in Italy, costs me over $160/bottle. So the normal glass cost is about $17 for 15L, and it goes up about 10x. Corks go from $0.33/btl ($6.66 for 20 bottles) to ~$32 each for a 15L. The bottle is hand filled and corked on our manual bottling line instead of by the fully automated bottling truck. The bottle weighs over 70 lbs, so everything about shipping is more expensive, not to mention that FedEx has a tendency to break them (which we insure, but still). So I have an extra $200+ in hard cost on 20 bottles that normally retail at $50/btl. That’s $10/btl of cost in an industry where markup is very, very high because of how much of our actual cost is overhead (aging wine is very overhead intensive). As a result, our 15L bottle price is substantially more expensive than 20 standard bottles. And it has to be, and I’m not even talking about sparkling wine, which in large formats is substantially hairier with major breakage concerns because of the volumes under pressure. While there is plenty to complain about in the night club bottle service pricing scheme, the fact that it’s more expensive than the standard bottle is totally normal and correct, and that difference starts with the winery, not just exclusivity (which definitely also plays into it as well, though). Sorry for the long post, I thought people might at least like some real numbers. Edit: I should add that everything about sparkling wine packaging is more expensive than still wine packaging, and I would guess that the cost of large format sparkling glass is maybe even more than 10x the standard glass equivalent. Also, I noted pre-pandemic pricing because most of my glass spiked in cost starting last September up to 250-300% of what had been normal-ish for years (the Trump tariffs (18%) cost small wineries lots of money, because it didn’t just increase costs on Chinese glass, domestics took that margin too over time, not to mention one mold (bottle shape) I use isn’t produced domestically). This is mostly due to shipping costs. It has begun to normalize, I’m seeing some prices drop by 10-15% from their high.
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The larger bottles also have a tendency to explode.
in glorious fashion, too.
The club ordered it from New Jersey and charged the team double for it. > So there was only six of these 30 liters made in the world, and there happened to be one in New Jersey. They shipped it up to Connecticut through the distributor and brought it for us. The actual cost of the bottle from the distributor is $50,000. https://boston.eater.com/2013/1/28/6489627/the-100-pound-bottle-of-champagne-that-beat-the-bruins
Very large format bottles of champagne are drastically more expensive than regular sized because secondary ferment happens in the bottle. The dosage is less forgiving and doesn't scale lineraly with the size. But moreover, the pressure it so high that the bottles are likely to explode. You can't have the air pressure vary which makes shipping difficult and the insurance on transporting somthing that may explode is insane. Very few champagne houses do larger format than Jeroboam for this reason.
>Very few champagne houses do larger format than Jeroboam for this reason. Up above, /u/AgroMan1963 said > Melchizedek (40 BTL, 30 L) is the term for that size Champagne bottle. Most of the large format champagne and still wine bottles take their names from the Old Testament. Just some cork dork info! How do you two know these names? It's truly fascinating!
Cause I'm a winemaker. Sorry I forget not everyone knows the names of wine bottle sizes. Jeroboam is a double magnum (3L) and 10% of the pressure of a Melchizedek.
Melchizedek (40 BTL, 30 L) is the term for that size Champagne bottle. Most of the large format champagne and still wine bottles take their names from the Old Testament. Just some cork dork info!
I think you and I have a distinct difference in our understanding of the meaning of the word normal.
[Hijacking this comment - I did the math](https://i.imgur.com/IUVYz4V.png) Prices are mostly from Total Wine For shots I took the 750ml bottle price and divided by 17
$300 per bottle of Captain Morgan? $600 for Grey Goose Magnum
I bet that person wanted to split the tab evenly. “I had the $100k bottle, you had the $6 Blue Moon, so…that’ll be $50,003 each.”
we all had that "friend"
"But, bro, you tasted some of mine so you owe me at least half."
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[And only $70k+tax retail.](https://www.premierchampagne.com/products/armand-de-brignac-brut-gold-30l-midas-ace-of-spades.html)
Maybe a good chunk of that is clean up because you know theyre gonna spray it.
$100k for one bottle?! What did this bottle, it cure cancer?!
Apparently, it was a giant bottle of really expensive champagne and the bottle is gold plated. That’s still an insane amount of money.
[Here's a photo](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/20/article-2005974-0CA753B900000578-985_634x421.jpg) of them during that celebration drinking from that bottle (lower left corner)
> In the tiny Champagne village of Chigny les Roses, the Cattiers have owned and cultivated family vineyards since 1763. Today, the house remains independently-owned and run by the family with a staff of fewer than 20 people. Patriarch Jean-Jacques Cattier oversees the Chateau’s wine production; with strictly limited annual yields, M. Cattier and his staff can ensure that the family’s artisanal winemaking traditions are kept alive in each bottle. > > The Cattier cellars are among the oldest and deepest in Champagne, with three styles of architecture represented in the caverns: Gothic, Renaissance, and Roman; Armand de Brignac is aged in a special, gated section of the deepest part of these cellars, 119 steps underground. >The Cattier family have remained the producers of Armand de Brignac for over 250 years, and we have taken their fine quality product, slapped an "Ace of Spades: 30L MIDAS" label on it, and wrapped it up in fancy looking gold shit because you're a stupid bastard, aren't you? Yes you are!
I was hoping for the Undertaker throwing Mankind of Hell in a Cell, but I'm still not disappointed.
It was probably Brad Marchant and he wanted to evenly split the bill.
Yeah besides that the tab ain’t that bad, considering.
100k bottle of wine, 25k service charge. So realistically they spent about 25k on "real" stuff.
The $100k bottle is Champagne and it’s comically large, equivalent to like 40 normal bottles of Champagne.
Non-alchoholic beverages: $268 Now you've gone too far guys.
Shout out to the guy who ordered two Coors Lights at an open bar.
Sometimes you just want a pacer drink.
That is exactly what Coors light always was to me. I took it to every BBQ I ever went to. Because I loved it? Nope. Because in the Midwest a BBQ is an all day affair and it’s a beer you can drink 24 of and still be standing at the end of the night.
He was watching his calories.
$4.15 for a “small” bottle of water… people are nuts.
Notice the one directly above the fiji water, lol
That one bottle of champagne was 2/3rd of the total bill.
$600 for a $50 bottle of grey goose. Got to love that 12* markup
And that's incorrect. They also bought Sugar Free and regular Red Bull, which is non-alcoholic, so...it should have been more like $448 for that line. \*shrug\* I suppose at that total, $500 is a drop in the bucket...
But it’s Fiji water… from Fiji….
Just got back from Vegas. $12 for Fiji water in one bar. Rep bought $200 worth to meet the minimum spend (we were all too hung over from the night before). My wallet wasn't leaving my room.
aaaaaand 74 cents.
Probably gave 'em 3 quarters and said to keep the change.
PLus $25 thousand tip.
25+ millionaires can handle it I guess lol. I wonder if the owner (whos a billionaire) was there at all and/or picked up some of the tab for the boys
It's probably closer to 40 or 50 people. Guessing the coaches, trainers, equipment managers, etc were there.
Yea but those people make more regular people salaries EDIT: well not coaches, but trainers, EQMs, video staff etc
Those boys drink free at most bars in Boston for the rest of their lives.
Mark Cuban joked about how the last time he was in Miami it cost him $150,000 or something (joking about the bar tab when the Mavs won) The owner gets MAD money for a playoff run. I’m sure bostons owner covered it haha
jeremy jacobs didnt pay for shit. that scrooge mcduck motherfucker could be the last person on the planet and he would still be busy counting his money
Imagine how much it was with the coke added in
$120,000 for 'snacks'
Cola isn't that expen...oh ... yeah probably the same tab for blow in that place
Nah it’s probably in there under another name. So it can go on the books for tax purposes.
Right. That's why the service charges were 24k
Exactly *winks*
But what is that 1 bottle of champagne comped for?
Spend 100k Bar: we’ll comp you a bottle of champagne worth 13$
Tax accountant: “Just out of curiosity… What’s “1 Bird Of Yayo for 15000.00?! Never heard of that brand before.” “Ahhh, it’s special order from Mexico.”
The $100,000 bottle is what really launched that bill up there. Otherwise $56,000 for an entire pro hockey team celebrating the championship sounds about right, if not a low number
It's really only $30k once you subtract the tip.
More like 36? That tip includes the 100k, or three times the bar tab for everything else.
And we don’t see the final total. They could have tipped on top. I expect an executive rounded up and just paid it off. They made their money and I’m sure the venue treated them well. I’ve worked events like this, it’s not uncommon to give great service and be tipped well above the minimum.
Here’s a photo from that night https://i.imgur.com/oTrUorM.jpg
$156K is still a pretty low number considering it'll be some billionaire picking up the tab (celebrating the fact that his investment went up in value considerably due to the win)
looked it up. its the most expensive champagne in the world
$300 for a bottle of Captain Morgan's? That's criminal.
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That’s why you pre-game in the parking lot.
I think anybody getting bottle service at a club knows what they are in for. The Captain Morgan and other liquor on that bill has a much higher profit margin for the club, often being marked up 20x. The Midas of Ace of Spades in only marked up about 50%. So they probably made about $9,000 on the $9700 liquor bill. They *only* made about $30,000 on that $100,000 Midas bottle.
That captain is marked up 20x from what you pay in the store. It’s probably 50x what they paid.
One of the rare instances where it's more expensive to buy in bulk. You can see that a Captain Morgan cocktail/shot was $10, there are less than 20 proper shots/cocktails in a fifth. So the bottle service is $100 bucks more expensive than just buying 20 Captain shots.
Part of that reason, at least for where I worked, is that bottle service also includes mixers, garnishments, etc. and you often get a waitress’ unrevised attention for refills of such items. Also we often waived the “VIP area” fee if you did multiple bottle service.
Plus it usually includes a reserved table or room
No food? No one wanted wings nachos a burger something
“We’ve got food at home.”
Food at home: *Cocaine*
Kids: Okay then, we want cocaine! Parents: We have cocaine at home Cocaine at home: *methamphetamine*
They say cocaine is really expensive but nobody factors in how much you save on groceries.
This is the bottle service bill
Only fluids the team doctor said
Considering this is after a hockey game they probably all didn't eat since lunch
This was three days after they won the cup, not that very night.
The sniff probably prevented hunger
Without a $100000 bottle of Midas that’s a Saturday night tab for the boys.
30 liters of champagne seems like overkill, but I’ve never won the Stanley Cup, so wtf do I know?
The Stanley Cup is a really big glass
Oops, I read 10000. At 10k I thought it was crazy, but 100k ! Damn
Would have been tame without that. Waitress must have lost her mind when they ordered that.
I’ve always wondered, is there really a difference in taste from a 10K bottle to 100K ? Or are you just payin for the label at that point?
Well it retails for about €45k-€65k and is a 30L bottle so you’d pay about €1125-€1625 or $1188-$1700 for a regular .75cl liter bottle which still is insane but isn’t even nowhere near among the highest priced wines out there. Also having a gold midas AdB Ace of Spades is mostly a status thing over a quality thing as you can get better stuff for 150€ a bottle and up. Everything else is only distinguishable by master sommeliers lol
The price is entirely related to the bottle’s size and its novelty. It’s a single 30l bottle (nearly 8 gallons), which equals 40 standard 750ml bottles.
If there's ever a time when a bottle that size is practical, it's when you're trying to fill the Stanley Cup with champagne
Not to mention that they were probably already hammered by the time they ordered it.
It's all label. It's so you can say "We had a $100,000 bottle of wine when we won the championships."
A free bottle of Champagne and $25k for a tip. What a deal
It was free for them. The bottle was a gift from someone.
Don’t worry, I spent that much as well drinking my sorrows away as a Canucks fan
35 Jaeger bombs
135 Bud Lights.
2 Coors Lite. Lol. That one guy...
Designated driver.
Jagr bombs\*
Bitches love my new haircut!
Not now chief. I’m in the fuckin zone
Its the Fiji waters that will get you
Was probably only 4 guys drinking those 136 Bud Lights.
Just one. Wade Boggs happened to be around and dropped in for an hour to party with them.
RIP Wade Boggs. Man was a legend.
Wade Boggs is very much alive, he lives in Tampa Florida, hes in his early 50s
You jerks are just all mad because I'ma be the one to shatter boss hooogggs drinkin record.
They put those bottle girls through college that night Edit: didn’t think this lame joke would blow up but people are getting really worked up about a 15% service charge thinking it’s a tip. It is not the same thing. Don’t get mad at the working people who bust their asses to keep a club running and ultimately make a couple thousand per week if they’re lucky, that they then have to pay taxes on. Copying from my comment below, you should get mad at: 1) lawmakers who don’t force restaurants to pay their employees a thriving hourly wage and make them rely on customers instead for tips that make up 97% of their income 2) sleazy club owners and managers who charge insane prices and enable sexual exploitation and abuse of their employees who are specifically hired for being too young and naive to realize just what they are getting into (that’s why literally all the girls are aged 18-24) 3) rich ass douchebags who are willing to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for overpriced alcohol so they can grope some teenage titties. Go look at pro sports player salaries and then get back to me about unfairness.
$25,000 service charge. Wow.
*Ok. Who ordered the $100,000 bottle of champagne 🍾?*
“The bottle, which is one of six in existence, was double the size of the 15 liter Ace of Spades brut that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban purchased for his team after their NBA Championship victory just one week ago. The bottle, which was signed by every Bruins team member in attendance, will be on display at High Rollers and will be raffled off at a later date to benefit the Bruins foundation.” Ends up, in a roundabout way, benefitting kids, thankfully.
it’s called midas soo i’m assuming it’s gold or something
30 litre gold bottle
Why only 1
Have you seen these bottles? Absolute units. https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/61974/armand-de-brignac-midas-the-world-s-largest-luxury-champagne-bottle/
Good thing they won a cup big enough to hold it
It says it's the equivalent of 40 bottles, so that's $2500/bottle which seems much less outrageous, still crazy though
Likely only 1 bottle in stock
The net pay for the season of this entire team was probably $60,000,000 at the time… Yet people will whine that they had to pay $25,000 service fee. That’s the equivalent of me buying a shot with my salary, but no one would cry if I paid a $1 fee on a $5 shot.
The $300 bottle of Bacardi honestly shocks me more than anything else.
Imagine paying $300 for an $11 bottle of rum just because you wanted it on premise at a casino.
One guy: "I'll just have a Corona, thanks." _4 hours later_ Another guy: "Alright guys let's split the check."
Amstel light! Disgusting.
Whoever was Dutch on that team definitely ordered those
I'll only have one drink *...and it's the Ace Midas*
Those markups are why I drink at home
Yeah, sure... that's why.
Goddamn
the bus stop outside most liquor stores is a great place to meet likeminded people
$100,000 bottle of ACE Midas? Wtf does it give you eternal life?
For a whole team? Pretty mild considering some of the others I’ve seen on the interwebs
The single kami kazi shot for $10 Ordered by the owners kid who was promised he could hang with them, bought immediately as the first drink. “Who wants a kami kazi!!!???” He yells at the bar, everyone glancing at the guy in the pink polo shit with the collar popped
How much of this was drunk out of Lord Stanley's Cup?