Pop Rox — Restaurant in Flint

The Eberson has a new theme and name, Pop Rox - a theme of adult candy drinks (actually tasty drinks) and DJ music, definitely a place designed as the only college bar in the city. It is no longer a barcade so no games, just music and eccentric decor. There is a lot of empty space so would either add more seating or some type of filler. Most the other bars downtown are more dark, hole in the wall type places or designed for fancy older people to drink wine, Pop Rox is a refreshing upbeat youthful additive to the Flint night life. It would be a nice youthful end cap after enjoying down town attractions. Perfect location where you can walk to most of downtown area and right next to the Capital Theater, so enjoy a performance then a drink afterwards. First time visiting since the change over in theme and name, don't like how they still use the old reviews and photos, it is far too different now to make them relevent or even accurate. Recommend deleting The Eberson Google Maps account and creating a new Pop Rox account otherwise many customers will be confused by the photos, videos, and reviews. There is not a lot of group seating so a larger group will find it difficult to sit together, seems it is more for dating or a few friends to hang. Also recommend adding more seating on the second floor, there is just a large open space not really designed for standing but no place to sit either. Maybe a pool table or something could fit, give drinkers something to do, maybe a Dance Dance Revolution game.

The concern is with all the other options downtown for drinking and eating, the main blood flow for this bar staying alive are the young college students which the campuses may not fully recover in attendance due to Covid for several more years. I recommend marketing like crazy to the students and posting around the UoM, MSU, Kettering, and Mott campuses, especially the local dorms. Would also build up Instagram, Tik Tik, and Facebook posts, even offer a discount or free samplers to those who post while there to build up the marketing...

I've came here plenty of times alone, with friends, and with my 3 year old i've brought a few times without any issues. Today i came with my son and my aunt and 8 year old cousin while they were in town visiting from marquette. First a worker came up to let us know kids aren't allowed after 9 (like any bar) and we agreed to leave before then. About 15 minutes later after we bought a bunch of tokens and played a few games we were told we had to leave while we still had plenty of tokens left. They were polite when telling us to leave but the fact that they made us leave while we were being respectful and spending money, and making us leave with tokens makes me really not want to come back again.

·It's ridiculous that the bar downtown with the most games is the least...

Great atmosphere, comfortable seating. I've been to a few arcade bars similar to this, but this one is lacking something that is very important. I HIGHLY recommend converting the arcade machines/slot machines into accepting tokens, tokens that come with ordering drinks/food. Maybe add a few games such as guitar hero & Mario kart. I'm used to going to arcade bars and playing with the tokens they provide, sales of food/drinks will increase and make up for the cost of the slot machines that are currently accepting quarters. I came here and didn't even wanna play the arcade machines because it just felt off to me, because I never had to pay with quarters. This place could have so much...