Have A Nice Day Cafe

This is a great place to go if you’re barely 21, single, and love to get creeped on or make a fool of yourself. I’m pretty lame, but this place is EXTREMELY LAME to the point of not even being fun anymore. I didn’t have to pay a cover to get in because I was going to a friend’s birthday, which was good. We got a VIP area for them — a couch surrounded by ropes in the middle of everything, with empty pizza boxes on the floor. I was never much of a club rat, but these seemed bizarre.
The biggest crime (besides the meat market aspect and the fact they charge people to get into this hole) is the drink situation. We may as well have been drinking water. After a couple of rum and cokes where we tasted MAYBE a couple of sweet droplets of rum, we each got a fish bowl — the signature drink, served in a goldfish bowl, with 7 or 8 straws meant to be shared. We each drank a whole one. If the thing had a proper amount of alcohol, we should all be dead. Nope, not even BUZZED! And it’s not like we have high thresholds for alcohol, this was just watered down red drank that made for a lot of trips to the potty.
SUCKS, don’t go here. ICK.

If you enjoy (a) getting felt up by random creepy strangers, (b) snotty bartenders and even snottier «beer tub» girls, © practicing your «hover move» over the toilets while standing in a puddle of various bodily fluids, or (d) lots and lots of Top 40 remixes, Have a Nice Day is your place.
See my review for Tiki Bobo’s. It’s basically the same as here. Except watch your drink very closely at HANDC and don’t accept drinks from strangers unless you’re standing there while it’s made and handed off to you (a good rule of thumb wherever you go). I’ve heard and seen things that were a bit sketchy.

okay, so the drinks are cheap and if you like to people watch (point and laugh) then this is the place for you. i don’t know what it was but man, there were a lot of bachlorette parties going on. if you want to get trashed for cheap and have a bunch of nasty boys try to rub up against you one last time. this might be the place for you.
oh. and i don’t know what what up with the DJ, seriously, if the record keeps skipping, you might not want to play that song.
meh. i had a good time, but that’s only because i spent most of the time attached to my boyfriend’s hip. it help close out the nastiness around me.

Ugh. I don’t know what to say that has not been said, so I’ll bullet point my distaste for this shithole:
— Overpriced drinks
— Overpriced (though NORMAL) cover charge
— Bad service with attitude
— Nothing special DJ
— Trashy girls and disgusting guys
— Long long long lines to the bathroom and I honestly can say I will never understand the «bathroom people» who sit on a stool expecting a tip for handing me a piece of paper towel. What I would tip for? If the floor was not splattered with vomit and piss. That would be nice.
All in all, I am no longer 21 and I’m glad that I don’t find myself venturing in here anymore. It is one of the worst bars in downtown Indy and I would not recommend this place for any self-​respecting human being.

Yuck! Have A Nice Day is one of my least favorite bars ever. It just feels gross in there — dirty atmosphere and not exactly the best clientèle. Nichole M. is completely right — nobody here respects your space. I met a friend for her birthday at Howl at the Moon, but didn’t realize that she wanted to go out dancing afterward. So unfortunately, I ended up here after having sworn it off a few years ago.
If you have recently turned 21, Have A Nice Day might be worth checking out, but if you’re a few years older, it’s not worth it. Save your money and time, avoid being groped on the dance floor, and head somewhere else — there are so many better options downtown.

Great place to come for drinks. It’s almost literally next door to Tiki Bobs. Definitely a meat market, but on some nights you can catch reps inside and get free miller beer or zippo lighters. Music was hip hop when I went. Worth a trip if you are in the downtown area. One of the only clubs I found that I liked.

I went here last Saturday night because it was my birthday and I just really wanted to dance.
The music was alright, I think the drinks were average (but I’m from LA so maybe my frame of reference is skewed). I had a good time dancing but the crowd definitely didn’t do it for me.
You know what the most annoying thing is — when people don’t respect your «space» when you are dancing. In LA, unless the club is wall to wall people, they give you a little room to shake your butt. Not here tho — the girls and guys would just move right into the little space I made for myself.
I can’t tell you how many times I got hit by some girl’s oversized purse. Ladies — when you are going out dancing, leave the TOTE BAG at home! Sheesh.

Never frequented the place myself, but after numerous late-​night forays into Downtown’s version of So’ Bro when I’ve walked by the door, conversations with patrons (i.e. cash-​strapped students) of the place (including one chick who was randomly punched in the eye by some guy in a fight — it was a nasty looking bruise), hearing the din of noise and music emanating from it first-​hand — while musing over the head-​scratching combination of the ever-​present pan-​handlers and cops along South Meridian Street — I’m inclined to side with Jared about everything except the money issue.

Whaaat!?! I just read Jared’s review and can’t believe it. Granted I haven’t been to Have a Nice Day Café in a few years, but we’d often go and have a great time. Even rang in the New Year once on this very dance floor. I remember (surprisingly) their signature $ 7 fishbowls which were just that: fishbowls filled with a courage-​distilling mix of Everclear (god love Indiana!) and Kool-​Aid.
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Have a nice day is a great place to get into a fight. Whenever I’ve come here there’s always a fight at the end of the night. Expect expensive drinks, possibly a cover, and a lot of top 40 dance.
It’s street parking only, and cops are usually hanging out in front at the end of the night to see if you try to drive home.