Visitors to Evergreen and Homewood enjoy holiday music and decorations, light refreshments, gift shopping, and $1 guided tours (free for members).
Front-of-house facilities can include entrances and exits to the building, lobbies, grand staircases, ticket offices, refreshment areas, gift shops, cloak rooms, and restrooms.
As golf course managers realize, storms cause golfers to stay indoors while rain also means lost revenue in greens fees, refreshments and pro shop purchases.
Last month, the Avon Centre Salon & Spa opened Eliza's Eyes, an "eyebrow boutique" run by Eliza Petrescu, a brow specialist, that includes three private service areas, a gift shop, a refreshment area and two specially trained "E-ssociates".
Choral music will warm the air, and the cafe will be open for revelers to stop by to warm up, have refreshments, watch performers and shop for holiday gifts.
J. Crew at the Grove and fashion writer-stylist Melissa Magsaysay (who is a freelance contributor to the Los Angeles Times) plan to host a morning of refreshments, styling and shopping featuring the Crewcuts for Kids collection.
A large-voiced woman with the bearing of an Army sergeant major called for quiet, then announced the Senate Committee hearing was running late, and we should consider going to the coffee shop for some refreshment.
They also advise that those who are prepared to brave the wait should bring a chair and refreshments, although the college coffee shop will be open, as will Auntie's Tea Shop (auntiesteashop.co.uk) across the road.
The fields, woods and wetlands that you pass through simply teem with a combination of badgers, foxes, woodpeckers, robins, hares, partridge, roe deer, skylarks, kingfishers, bats, field mice, voles, toads, grass snakes … Recover afterwards A small shop sells light refreshments at Lodge Park, which is 2.5 miles south-west across the A40, where there are also picnic tables.
In proper museum style, and in spite of its miniature footprint, Museum has squeezed in an espresso machine and a gift shop, offering visitors refreshments and the chance to take home artefacts of their own.
