Cigar store/lounge question
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If you bought a cigar from a shop a year ago and haven't darkened the door since, obviously the folks working there aren't going to remember that.
As the previous posts have suggested, purchase something from the shop, then politely ask if you can smoke something you brought from home. I would say 90% of the time, they wont mind because you just supported their business.
you can only smoke what you bought that day hereRight I understand being supportive but I was strictly speaking in reference to the laws in those states...
If you bought a cigar from the past I am supposed to look for our tag on the cigar. Now saying that not all cigars we sell have our tag on it, so next I am supposed to look for if we carry that brand/vitola. It is not an exact science better off always buying something, pocket that, take what you brought and take the band off. Then I wouldn't know any different. It is bad business to hound you over it. Just always better buying. then chancing smoking your own, just don't make it obvious.
ChefBoyRG54
BoM Sept '14 & BoY 2014
i agree with this^
i went last night to my BM and bought 4 sticks, but smoked one that i brought from home. saved the rest
I buy a couple of cigars every time I step foot inside B&Ms/Cigar lounge. Some of these places have very limited selections so I will bring from home what I want to smoke that night. If I'm smoking something not sold at the establishment, I remove the band.
Every B/M I visit has a strict policy...if you bought it here, smoke it here. If you bought it somewhere else, go smoke it there.
the only exception is the one shop where I'm good friends w/ the owner and I take him stuff he doesn't sell. I take him one and one for myself and we both smoke it there.
the only exception is the one shop where I'm good friends w/ the owner and I take him stuff he doesn't sell. I take him one and one for myself and we both smoke it there.
xFreebirdx
Patriot Guard Rider
In every B&M I have been in to date. While checking out with cigars I purchase there I'll ask if I can smoke a cigar I brought with me. They all have said it was OK. But I always ask first.
I usually buy a cigar or drink if offered at the shop, however, I usually smoke my own cigars because they are kept perfect. The other day I was visiting the Cigar Factory Outlet in Royal Oak MI, a new branch that just opened. They had a cigar happy hour that started about 20 min after I arrived where you buy one get one free. I lit up what I had waiting for the clock to strike 330 to make a few purchases when the GM came over and lit into us for smoking our own cigars. I said I was waiting for the specials to start to buy, which I did. But he was so rude that I will not go to any of their locations ever again. I buy tons of cigars from this place, but they essentially lost all of my business. They were trying this new buy it here and smoke it here and enforcing it which made the whole situation very uncomfortable.
I've never experienced that at the Sterling Heights place. I mean obviously you shouldn't smoke what you didn't buy there, but the reality is that it's not really the same thing as a traditional bar. Regardless of what people say... Most here have or do smoke their own and likely sometimes without buying any that time.
I'd say not to write off Jenuwines yet. Either respect their rules or be more subtle. It could have just been the new manager.
I go to jenuwine all the time and never had a problem. Granted I've never walked in and lit up I always purchase first then smoke. I'd say give them another shot usually a real cool place
I've never had a problem either, just at this new location. I always buy multiple cigars when I am there, but I may not smoke them when I am there either. I also buy boxes when they have events as well. I just don't like all the reminders and hassles to do the right thing, it makes for an amateur atmosphere. For now I mostly go to Churchill's and that is working out just fine, no hassles there!
Do they allow you to bring your own? I know someone who has Cubans there, but I've always bought what I had there and they cut and light it themselves, so they are usually aware what is what.
if you buy a STICK from the B&M and want a smoke a cigar you brought with you, no matter the policy they should be well obliged to let you smoke it. I've been in retail/restaurant business most of my life. any B&M tells me I can't after I patronized their business is not one I would be prolly ever go back to again.
Couldn't agree more. I go to Jenuwine's in Sterling Heights and bring my own stuff all the time. I quite frankly don't give a shit what their policy is. If that makes me an ass so be it. I always make a purchase (or 2 or 3) first, then light up whatever I have brought with me. And order more than a few drinks. I figure that if I'm dropping 20-40 (unfortunately for my wallet it almost always is closer to that $40 mark) in cigars and drinks I should be entitled to smoke a stick from home. However, nobody has ever called me on it even though I know that they know I'm not smoking something from their humidor.