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First Time Guide · free for every kava bar

They peek in.They walk away.Not anymore.

Every kava bar loses the same customer every day: the curious one who has no idea what this place is, and won’t ask. The First Time Guide answers on their own phone, in about a minute, and walks them from your window to their first shell.

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  • Free for every kava bar
  • No app for guests to download
  • Your menu, your deal

This phone is live. Tap it.

Free. For every kava bar.

Claim your bar on HappyKava, which costs nothing, and the guide, every poster and your results come with it. Nothing to pay.

The problem

The most expensivequestion in your baris the onenobody asks.

“What is this place?” Nobody says it out loud. They think it at your window, at your bar and next to the friend who dragged them in. Then they leave without an answer.

  1. 01

    The one walking by

    Peeks in. Keeps walking.

    Stools, bowls, people laughing, no liquor on the shelf. They have no word for what they’re looking at, and nobody walks into a place they can’t name.

  2. 02

    The one who walked in

    Doesn’t know what to order.

    Or what to say, or whether it’s okay to ask. They order nothing, or the wrong thing, make a face and decide kava isn’t for them.

  3. 03

    The friend a regular brought

    Gets the rushed version.

    Explained mid-shell, over the music. Nobody tells them a numb tongue is normal, or that feeling nothing the first time is too.

Meanwhile, behind the bar. Your kavatender explains kava from zero. Again. During the rush. To someone who may not order.

The fix

A kavatender’s bestfirst-timer talk,on their own phone.

Scan, read for a minute, walk in knowing what to order and what to say. It opens in the phone’s browser. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for.

Three ways in. Pick one and tap through it:

Opens on the question they’re actually asking, then tells them yes, they can just walk in.

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  • Read first, decide last

    The basics come before the order, so nobody feels sold to.

  • “Show my kavatender”

    A full-screen card: “Hi! It’s my first time.” Their phone says it for them.

  • Shell in hand

    Ask who else is having one. Shells up. Bula. All of it, in one go.

  • The 15 minutes

    A timer for the wait, with what to expect: the numb tongue, the calm, and why feeling nothing is normal.

  • “So, how was it?”

    It asks. Then it offers the next one.

How it works

From the sidewalkto a stool.

  1. 1

    You print a poster

    For the window, the door, the bar top or a table tent. Your bar’s name and your first-time deal are already on it.

  2. 2

    They scan it

    With the camera they already have. The guide opens in their browser in a second.

  3. 3

    It walks them in

    What a kava bar is, what kava is, what to order from your menu, and the magic words: “It’s my first time.”

  4. 4

    They show their phone

    Your kavatender reads the card and pours. The guide handles the ritual, the timer and “want another?”

The posters

Posters that dothe askingfor them.

More than thirty designs, from “WTF is this place?” to “Stop peeking. Come in.” Each one prints with your bar’s name, your first-time deal and its own QR code, so you can see which one works.

These QR codes are real. Point your camera at one.

  • 18 × 24 window
  • 11 × 17
  • Letter
  • Table tent

The growth loop

One shell today.A regular by Friday.

A first visit is worth one drink. A regular is worth a stool, a tab and the friends they bring. The guide is built to start the second thing.

  1. A poster in your window

    Works while you’re closed, busy or short-staffed.

  2. A one-minute read

    Curiosity gets an answer instead of a shrug.

  3. A first-time deal

    Yours to set: a free shell, a free chaser, half off. Or none.

  4. The first shell, done right

    Ritual, chaser, water, and honest expectations.

  5. The HappyKava app

    Make the deal an Exclusive Deal and they claim it in the app, where your events, deals and check-ins bring them back.

  6. They bring a friend

    Who scans the sign on your bar. And it starts again.

The revenue it unlocks

Do the mathwith your numbers.

We won’t quote you an average. You know your street. Move the sliders to what you see from behind your bar.

$10,714added in the first 12 months

12
new first-timers a month
$144
from their first visits, each month
2.4
new regulars a month
$1,382
a month from those regulars, one year in

An estimate from the numbers you entered, assuming your regulars keep coming. It is your arithmetic, not our promise.

What’s under the hood

Simple for them.Serious underneath.

  • No app, no account

    It opens in the phone’s browser from any QR scan or link. The app is the reward, not the toll.

  • It knows which door

    A window poster, the sign on your bar and a link from a friend each open a different way, because those are three different people.

  • Your menu, not ours

    Your first-timer pick, your drinks pulled from your HappyKava menu, your chasers, your deal. Change them any time; the posters stay valid.

  • Honest by design

    It says kava tastes like bitter earth, that the tongue goes numb, that the first time can feel like nothing, and never with alcohol. Guests who know what’s coming come back.

  • Kava, or kava and kratom tea

    Choose your guide. Where you pour kratom tea, that part stays behind a 21+ question.

  • It counts steps, not people

    Scans, walk-ins, cards shown, first shells. No names, no devices, no tracking a guest around.

  • A result for every poster

    Each poster has its own code, so you learn which line on which window actually brings people through the door.

  • A link worth sending

    Texted to a friend, it shows your bar’s photo and name, not a bare URL.

Results

Know which windowis working.

Your owner page shows the path from scan to first shell, by door and by poster.

Example numbers, to show the layout
Scanned a poster212
Said they’d walk in96
Showed the kavatender card71
Drank a first shell58
Said they felt it41

Best poster“Stop peeking. Come in.”

For your team

Your kavatender pours.The guide explains.

The first-timer arrives already knowing what kava is, what they want and what to say. Your kavatender gets to do the good part: the welcome.

Questionsowners ask.

What does it cost?

Nothing. The First Time Guide is free for every kava bar. Claim your bar on HappyKava, which is also free, and the guide, the posters and the results are yours.

Do guests need the HappyKava app?

No. The guide opens in the phone’s browser from a QR code or a link. If your first-time deal is an Exclusive Deal, they get the app to claim it, which is how they hear about your next event.

How long does it take to set up?

It works with HappyKava’s default drinks and chasers as soon as you turn it on and print a poster. Add your own drinks, chasers and first-time deal whenever you like.

Can I pick what first-timers are told to order?

Yes. You choose the drinks they pick from and mark your bar’s pick, straight from your HappyKava menu. You choose the chasers and the deal too.

We pour kratom tea as well. Does it work for us?

Yes. Choose the kava and kratom tea guide. The tea part appears only after the guest answers a 21+ question, and only where it is allowed.

What do you track about my guests?

Counts of steps: how many scans, walk-ins and first shells, by door and by poster. No names and no devices.

Will it replace my kavatender’s welcome?

No. It replaces the explanation, so the welcome can be a welcome. The guide’s most repeated advice is to tell the kavatender it’s their first time.

Do I have to offer a first-time deal?

No. The guide and every poster work with no deal. Posters that are built around a deal only appear once you set one.

Stop losingthe curious ones.

It’s free. Claim your bar, put one poster in your window this week and watch who walks in.

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