In fact, in partnership with NOCHI and Tulane’s Medical School, our General Manager created the BRACE pledge (Business Resilience And Community Education) for businesses that want to go far above and beyond government mandated COVID-19 health and safety precautions. We are confident that our guests will find our bar meets the highest public health and safety standards. To better protect our community, all staff are fully vaccinated and boosted, within at least the past 8 months, per CDC recommendationĭo not enter the bar if you're experiencing COVID-19 symptoms Tonique’s goal is for everyone-especially our staff-to leave better for having spent their time with us.Īs of March 21, 2022, the city of New Orleans has lifted all COVID safety mandatesĪt our staff’s discretion, we have decided to also lift our COVID mandated restrictions
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We’re proud of our training and professional development, and to be able to say that more Bar Tonique alum have gone on to run more major cocktail programs in New Orleans than from any other bar in the city. Our bar was among the first to host Turning Tables mentees, and we tend to hire from outside craft cocktail bars, providing opportunities that traditional gatekeepers may lock folks out of. All of our employees receive health insurance, a 401k, paid time off, and a set schedule with no doubles or clopens permitted. Our longtime GM is a recognized service industry advocate, and the co-founder and executive director of a local sexual violence prevention and industry advocacy organization. Bar Tonique is a minority owned business, and we tend to have a majority BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ identifying staff (as is currently the case).
While we’ve been content to go about this work quietly for many years, we are glad to see now that our community-and industry-are eager to ask questions about the culture at the businesses they support.
For many years, Tonique has centered equity in all we do, from ensuring our staff is representationally diverse, to ensuring their labor is fairly compensated, to breaking down traditional hierarchies and unfortunately normalized (de-)valuing systems in our industry. As such, we think it’s important that we reflect the community that we’re a part of, and that we model its best qualities in our policies and practices. We strive to ensure Tonique is a safe, comfortable, welcoming space for all.
We have pretty much the same appearance, the same vibe, the same approach to just humbly provide a space for New Orleans to come together and connect. so why change it? We still have pretty much the same menu, only having expanded it twice since 2008. Ice machines might break, but the goal and the way we go about delivering it rarely has. Over the years, while the community-and the cocktail industry-have changed quite a bit, we’ve stuck to those roots. Tonique opened 08/08/08 as the first free-standing craft cocktail bar in New Orleans, with the straightforward goal of serving great cocktails, carefully curated wines, and craft beers in a friendly, unpretentious, neighborhood bar.