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Walk Saturday
with me.Watch where OUR money comes from.

Forget the buildings. Forget floor plans. Forget architecture.
We’re not restaurant owners. We’re building a machine that turns visitors into drink buyers.
Vendors bring people in. The bar pays us. Tacos are bait.

11:00 AM

Doors open. Brunch. Smells incredible. Vendors cooking. Feels like a restaurant — that’s the front door. Nobody wakes up to stare at a bar for six hours.

Every table: mimosas · Bloody Marys · beer · cocktails.

Vendors sell food. We sell drinks. Brunch alcohol: ~$1,500–$2,000 before noon.

2:00 PM · LSU

The property transforms. New crowd — gear · groups · families. The watch wall is the attraction. Not tacos. Not DJ.

Pods booked · 4 lounge pods @ lean open · ~$800–$1,200 minimums. Round bar busy. ~$5,000 — dinner hasn’t started.

5:30 PM · Dinner

Date-night booths. Beautiful. Alive. Couple spends $60 on food — vendors get paid. Not us.

Most restaurants: check paid · goodbye · parking lot empties · money stops.

Not Mirage.

The DJ is not the attraction.
The DJ is the magnet.
The bar is the attraction.

The moment everything changes

7:30 PM

Dinner finished. Couple stands up. Music. Courtyard glowing. Round bar packed. They stay.

Another drink $24 · walk outside · friends · high-top · another round · another round.

Taco vendor got paid once. We keep getting paid.

8:30 PM

DJ starts — magnet, not headliner. West: date nights still drinking. East: bar crush. Courtyard: photos · pods · rounds.

10:00 PM · The whole business

Not more people arrived. Nobody left. Birthday · LSU · date couple · girls’ night — still here. Every minute → register rings.

— COUNT THE MONEY —

Brunch alcohol
$2,000
LSU crowd
$3,000
Pod minimums
$2,500
Dinner cocktails
$3,000
Courtyard drinks
$2,500
DJ / social
$4,000
Late rounds
$2,000
Birthdays
$2,000
SATURDAY · MIRAGE BAR GROSS (VISION)
$21,000
One day · one property · one mortgage

Why not another DJ building

Everybody feeds
the same register.

I don’t want half the crowd in another room. I want LSU seeing birthdays · dates seeing courtyard · courtyard seeing the bar — one energy · one register.

Brunch → LSU → dinner → cocktails → courtyard → social → another round → another hour → another drink

That’s Mirage. A social district where vendors bring people and the bar monetizes people.

Friday (vision)
$10,000
Saturday (vision)
$21,000
Sunday
$7,000
Thu + Mon–Wed
$17,000
WEEKLY BAR GROSS · STRETCH MOVIE
~$55,000

Partner vision / stretch Saturday — not base NOI. Packet Likely: Saturday bar $12,240 · monthly bar $144,925 · NET ~$83k–$100k @ station fill. Stretch monthly ~$220k bar only after POS proof. Lock: docs/1705-MANHATTAN-PROJECTION-NUMBERS-LOCK.md (Rev B)