It s pretty easy to open and run a nightclub BUT opening, promoting, advertising, and operating a nightclub successfully is a challenge.In many cases you will have to own the building and not have tennants above or below your business. Several clubs I have worked with have had budgets in the millions of dollars yearly with about a 20%-30% profit margin dependent upon the week, number of staff, deals with liquor distributors, etc.In some cities only a few permits for clubs are issued yearly and, in many cases, they want the build-out completed, insurance paid, bonds paid, staff planned and hired, before the day your business is awarded the certificate. It took a friend 1 year to open his nightclub in Washington, D.C. and it cost him over $100,000 in expenses (mortage, product, personnel, legal expenses to fight the city, etc while it was idle) and it was a purchase of a building and a rehab that cost in the millions. It is, however, the only sliding glass roof in the area and it s a really cool club.It might be easy to have some fun working with nighclubs to do promotions. We all make fun of the folks who are the promoters but it can be a lot of fun and you might even make some scratch, get the occasional free bottle, etc if you help improve their business and drive in the right folks.It is fun to run a nightclub and even work in a nighclub BUT there is a price to pay. You are leaving when most people are fast asleep. You have a lot of good people and a few rude drunk folks.It would be best for you if you worked in the industry and had a business degree with a focus on hospitality. You will learn a lot about the requirements.
Depends on where you live and what the licensing laws are. It is not easy and it takes a fair amount of money. And a lot of work to make it succeed.
I think the question is how difficult, not how easy. Do you have a degree in anything? Are you able to take out a loan of more than $200k? If not just stick to clubbing
