OKAY
what advertising would you suggest to GET the gig at the restaurant/bar?
(just pulling your chain)
I know you're just yanking, but I'd like to answer anyway:
1) Visit the venue, make friends with the bartender, find out contact/owner name
2) Snail mail a MEMORABLE (In other words, try and avoid the corporate looking/everything perfect/ looks like everyone else's) package. BTW- tape it shut so a bartender or someone won't open it risking the wrath of a boss.
3) wait about 3 days ( I'm figuring you want to work local) and try calling the contact and setting up an appointment.
If you get the appointment, you know how to handle it.
If you don't, try stopping in anyway, after finding out from your bartender friend when the contact might be there.
If you get shot down, wait awhile, and repeat. I've been originally shot down, only to be hired later through persistance.
Do this with all available venues of the type you want. NOTE: ALWAYS take a look at the venue before contacting. Many don't neccesarily live up to the name. For instance, in my area, the "Palais Gardens" ended up being a dive bar with no kitchen ( you couldn't even get pretzels there), and bathrooms you could smell a block away....
