Happy Hour

The Happy Hour (English for Happy Hour ) is the hour of the day, from the social to the ( English ) Comment on the working end of the consumption of alcohol is permitted in accordance with appropriate and appears.

Because of the work practices ( "nine to five" ) thus begins the happy hour usually in the afternoon at five clock and ends at six clock.

Originally, this was the one hour in which a club in central London after lunch opened again and his guests in the work of members for the first time hosted the evening with drinks.

To animate now already at this early hour guests to a local visit, some caterers provide an incentive for Happy Hour: Reduced drink prices by any rule. From reductions in free goods ("You numbers two, you drink three ...") about half price to a symbolic Euro for each drink are already a lot of incentive models become known.

However, guests often have to accept its limitations during Happy Hour: The kitchen is mostly still closed, Meal orders will be taken until the end of happy hour, and the meal accompanying drinks have then reverts to normal prices. It is sometimes also to avoid Abrechnungsmogeleien around the time a drink order, zwischenkassiert the end of Happy Hour.

Also in some brothels or tanning salons, there are Happy Hours. Also, some Internet storage services offer at low use of a so-called Happy Hour. During this time, the downloaded data is calculated, for example, only a certain percentage of the actual volume of data. Furthermore, the Bocholt fair traditionally starts with happy hours.

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