KISS To Open Themed Coffeehouse In Vegas, Other Cities

Is your strangely long tongue craving some caffeine? Perhaps a $6 “rockuccino"? Then you'll feel right at home in the forthcoming KISS-themed coffeehouse in Las Vegas, due to open next year. KISS already has a themed coffeeshop in Myrtle Beach, and the Vegas location will take serious cues from the original. The Las Vegas Sun describes the scene:

Twenty-foot-tall smoking Kiss boots greet guests, Kiss music blares and patrons gulp beverages out of 100-ounce “guitar sippers” that flash colors and play hard rock. It’s possibly the last place where you’d want to curl up with a good book.

Sounds like it will fit in just perfectly with the already over-amplified Vegas surroundings. A KISS mini-golf course is debuting in Las Vegas in November as well, but will be under different management and in a different location than the coffeeshop.

National expansion is definitely not out of the question; New York City, Orlando and Hollywood locations are being tossed around.

After all, who wouldn't want to drink a cup of java with a Gene Simmons look-alike (or maybe even the man himself?). According to the website for the Myrtle Beach location, it's "the only coffeehouse in the world where you can rock and roll all night and drink coffee every day." Thank goodness for that.

Comments

[swagv]

01:20 PM on 08/18/2011

Why couldn't they franchise something useful, like Amy Winehouse-themed methadone clinics?

[EatMeSF]

04:03 PM on 08/17/2011

There are much worst things then listing to Kiss and drinking coffee...

It's going to have to be real good coffee and old Kiss.

[plazmaorb]

01:08 PM on 08/17/2011

KISS used to be about Rock and Roll.. now they are just a joke.. a shadow of what they used to be... going through the motions to make money... Im sorry but KISS doesnt rock anymore, they just rolled into the sell out stage of life.

[vegaspauli]

01:25 AM on 08/19/2011

Before the "reunion" in the 90s I read a great Ace article in a guitar magazine asking why he had quit KISS. He was talking about band meetings where marketing people kept bringing lunch boxes and other marketing trinkets (never talking about music) and said that was bad enough, but then Paul & Gene started showing up dressed in the same suits as the marketing folks: he said it was really weird watching his band mates turn into the machine....