Raindancer renovation embraces demand for tap craft beers

Raindancer expands bar seating. (photo provided)

• From the Amsterdam Recorder

AMSTERDAM -- With 37 different beers on draft, it doesn’t matter if someone prefers dark and roasted over fruity and sour flavors when stopping for a drink at he Raindancer. They can even check the BeerMenus app before headed in to see every style available on the menu that night.

Walter Porath, operations manager, said... “We were dabbling before and now we are full fledged in" the craft beer scene. “It’s definitely worked, we’ve had tremendous feedback from the customers. They love it just as much as we do.”

Porath said renovation ... nearly doubled the size of the bar [adding] 23 seats to the bar area. He said the customer size in the bar has increased. “It was seats that we would only fill when it was a banquet and when it was a banquet large enough to fill that room,” Porath said. “We had that opportunity to fill that seat every day or several times a week.”

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