The Uni Bar is an integral part of Student Guild services, providing an essential place for students and staff to co-mingle, host meetings and events, and relax from their busy schedules - all whilst listening to live music, participating in daily games, and enjoying a quality meal or beverage.
Bobby Smith
Venue Manager Uni Bar and Function Centre
In 2019 the Uni Bar set out to broaden its offerings with a focus on supporting local companies. The Uni Bar was pleased to expand its craft beer offerings with the inclusion of Stone and Wood, Black Hops, Lost Palms and Balter - all Gold Coast based boutique breweries. These brands reflect the culture and lifestyle that the Gold Coast is famous for and the Uni Bar wanted to emulate that with its customers.
The Uni Bar added two new School’s Out parties to its event calendar for students to enjoy at the end of each exam period. These were both well received with 480 attendees in Trimester 1 and 550 attendees in Trimester 2. In addition to these events, the Uni Bar also reintroduced bingo and trivia nights, holding each twice per trimester. Each event brought in close to 100 attendees.
A key objective for 2019 was to redesign cocktail offerings. This meant a brand-new cocktail menu and a focus on cocktail of the month specials. The main inclusion on the new menu was a range of cocktail jugs for customers to share. The response was massive, particularly with the October offering, the strawberry margarita jug, which achieved 213 sales over the course of the month. A total of 1,097 cocktail jugs were purchased in 2019. Another key focus for the Uni Bar in 2019 was to increase the prize giveaways to customers, with a total value of prizes equalling over $10,000.
The Uni Bar was pleased to offer streaming of all Fox Sports channels, ensuring live sport and entertainment were available every minute of the day. This was in addition to free pool on Mondays, board games on Tuesdays and live musicians every Friday afternoon.
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The Uni Bar knew it would be a tough year for functions with relevant University stipulations and budget cuts in place. As a result, the Uni Bar hosted 13 fewer formal functions in 2019 bringing the total to 58, down from 71 in 2018. However, due