I need contact info (Name, address, phone) for all licensed bars,
taverns and night clubs in the top 50 metro areas.  As a further
clarification, I know I can go to state alcohol control board websites
and get license numbers, but these numbers typically include retail
stores selling beer or alcohol, which does not help me. This is for a
business venture that will target this market segment.  A satisfactory
answer will give me numbers broken down by metro area, and will
contain a link, or links, to a website that I can gather the contact
information from OR a source that I can contact.  Please do not
mention mailing list brokers as that outlet has typically provided me
with old and or incorrect data.

If you need any further clarification, please feel free to ask. 
THANKS!!

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Clarification of Question by tar_heel_v-ga on 14 Aug 2002 08:04 PDT

Regarding Chromedome's comment:

Very good point.  After reading your comment, you are 100% correct.  A
clarification:

Top 25 metropolitan areas based upon population as opposed to the top
50.  The number of these establishments will suffice with, if
possible, the dates of the data, i.e. 1997 Business Census. An
example:

Boston - 1,246 licensed establishments

Obviously (maybe not so obvious :) ), I am not looking for the
researcher to provide the data (address, etc) within this answer.  If
they can direct me to a source ( or sources) where I can find the
contact data, that will suffice.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the input, Chromedome

Hi, Tar Heel!

Just a couple of points I'd like to cover...

1) What geographic area are you interested in?
2) You may not find a researcher willing to take on a question of this
        magnitude for the price you've offered.

Consider that the major metropolitan areas (assuming, say, top 50
cities in US) will have thousands of bars each.  You are looking for
three discrete pieces of data, for thousands of businesses, for fifty
cities.  Given the speed with which bars open and close, any central
list of these businesses, unless updated monthly, will ALWAYS be out
of date.  This means that the researcher who undertakes your question
will be faced with a tremendous amount of city-by-city slogging.

Even at $200, the current maximum price set by Google Answers, only a
minority of researchers would take on a project like this.

For what it's worth, my proverbial two cents.

-Chromedome

I am in agreement with ChromeDome's comment: this is a huge project to
undertake.  Given the large amount of these types of establishments in
each city, you might consider offering a dollar amount to research
each city individually.

However, I have yet to visit a large city that did not have a
"nightlife magazine" (or a few) so you might take that tact,
remembering that only paid advertisers make it in to those types of
publications.  Or check the online yellow pages for these types of
businesses in each city.  Still, as ChromeDome stated, these types of
businesses are always coming and going.

Good luck on your quest.