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| - They're back! The club looks good since they've reopened. The menu of food and drink is strikingly similar to that of Stand Up Live in Phx, but I'm pretty sure its the same owner. It is all ok, not great, but not terrible. Prices for drinks are pretty darned high. Be prepared to spend $30/person if you're drinking alcohol (2 drinks/person + tax and 15% automatic gratuity, no matter how many times you have to ask for something.) Unlike SUL Phx, food items do not count towards your 2 items per person, which was disappointing. My bf does not drink, so he either spends $10 on 2 small bottled waters or $13 on a bottomless soda. A bit ridiculous.
The club is smaller than SUL, so its a bit more intimate. Too bad their prices don't reflect that intimate small club feel. I get a text almost every weekend that I've "won" a 4-pack of tickets to the show, so I'm guessing they're having a hard time filling seats at the same premiums as the big brother club downtown. Btw, if you "win" these, you pay the handling charge of $5 plus tax upon picking them up.
IMO, Tempe Improv needs to understand their audience is a college crowd and people aren't going there to empty their wallets. Play to the people who live nearby and do smaller acts, and drop your drink prices by a buck or two.
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