Yesterday's Tavern

It's Where We Drink

by Will Dean

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Published: Apr 10, 2007

E ver find yourself the barroom recipient of too many free drinks? Me neither. But when it happens to a patron at Yesterday's Tavern in Port Richmond, the bar's got a system in place so that no drop of alcohol goes unimbibed.

You see, when someone buys you a drink at Yesterday's and you've already had your fill (we're talking one more shot and you'll be making merry with porcelain), you get a little plastic chip good for one free drink. The type of beverage the kind sir or ma'am has bought you is printed on one side, but the tokens are also color-coded: blue is good for a 7-ounce beer, red for a 12-ounce lager, gray for a cocktail, and purple for a shot from the top shelf.

Best of all, if you've reached the point of ankle-deep-in-vomit incapacitation, you can store your chip as kindling for a future bender.

"Anywhere else you'd have to drink a free drink right then," says bartender Tina Kile, "but here you can leave and come back whenever you'd like."

Most of the chips are traded between locals who regularly buy rounds for each other, but newcomers stand a chance of receiving a chip as a welcoming gesture. After all, nothing says Best Friends Forever quite like free booze.

 

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