No, we weren’t carefully following the terrifying news on Wall Street late on a Saturday night; we were huddled around the large wooden bar of Footsie in the 2nd. Footsie (a play on FTSE, the London Stock Exchange) is a narrow venue off a windy street with four huge flat screen TVs behind the bar. These TVs, which are refreshed every four minutes, show the changing prices of beverages—from tap beer to top-shelf liquors. It certainly gives you an excuse to buy, buy, buy; think of how powerful it feels to watch your purchase of a bottled beer affect the market so much another brand of bottled beer drops to almost nothing! Then, of course, you must buy the cheaper beer… and so on and so forth, until you can’t see straight anymore.
Apparently the market crashes at some point. Apparently the price of booze can fall below the price of water. We saw none of that. But we still had a great time at a bar with an incredibly unique scheme.
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