Brio offers Monday Industry Nights for others in bar, restaurant industry

1 comment March 19th, 2008

Brio, the restaurant and wine bar at 515 E. State St., Rockford, has started an “Industry Night” each Monday night for fellow workers in the restaurant and bar industry. On Monday nights, anyone working in that industry — except for fast food restaurants — can bring a current pay stub from his or her employer, purchase one alcoholic beverage at regular price, and choose an entree free from Brio’s Industry Night menu. Currently there are three entrees on that menu.

Catering director Sandy Johns said Brio started the program March 10, “to have fun and relax with the people who know our business.

“Monday nights typically are slow nights for people in the industry, so it’s a good night for those people to come together and have some fun,” she said. Monday night the 17th, the restaurant had a couple of tables full of industry folk, Johns said.

“We haven’t really been measuring how many extra industry people we’ve gotten yet,” she said. “We haven’t really gotten the word out yet.”

Johns said she does have ideas for trivia games and other fun activities to add if the Industry Night really takes off.