Siesta Key Oyster Bar

What Siesta Key Oyster Bar does

Siesta Key Oyster Bar ("SKOB") is a privately held, single-location beachfront restaurant and bar operating from 5238 Ocean Blvd in Siesta Key Village, Sarasota, Florida. The business is positioned adjacent to Siesta Key Beach, consistently ranked America's #1 beach, and operates on a walk-in only basis with no reservations accepted. Hours run Monday-Thursday 11am-11pm, Friday-Saturday 11am-12am, and Sunday 9am-11pm, with Sunday Brunch served 9am-11:30am weekly.

The core offering is a unified dining and entertainment experience built on three pillars: a full food menu emphasizing fresh oysters, seafood, award-winning wings, and burgers, with entrees priced between $15.50 and $85.50; a beverage program spanning craft cocktails (SKOB-tails $14-$17, margaritas $12-$18, signature Rum Stumbler Bucket $30), draft beers ($3-$8), and wines, supported by daily oyster happy hour ($12/dozen from 3pm-6pm) and a 3-4-5 Power Hour promotion; and a live music program with 182 scheduled events annually featuring local and regional musicians across genres. The company additionally sells SKOB-branded apparel, house-made hot sauce, gift certificates, and gear through an e-commerce shop at skob.com, with domestic shipping only and no international fulfillment. Produce is described as locally sourced, pesticide-free, and sustainably grown.

The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer walk-in traffic supplemented by the website for menu, calendar, and merchandise transactions, with marketing reliant on the live music calendar, local SEO, social media sharing via artist pages, and word-of-mouth. Distribution is exclusively through the single dine-in location and the proprietary e-commerce storefront; there are no third-party delivery, franchise, or wholesale channels disclosed. Management consists of Co-Managing Directors Steve and Samantha, with Jason coordinating live music programming. The company is privately held with no parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, M&A activity, patents, or formal partnerships disclosed in the input data.

Name

Siesta Key Oyster Bar

Legal name

Siesta Key Oyster Bar

Website

https://skob.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Siesta Key Oyster Bar (SKOB) is a privately held single-location beachfront restaurant and bar in Siesta Key Village, Sarasota, FL, serving tourists and locals with fresh oysters, seafood, award-winning wings, craft cocktails, daily live music, and Sunday brunch, plus an online shop for branded merchandise and gift certificates.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Seafood Restaurant and Bar

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Steakhouses & Seafood Restaurants (THAFACAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rooftop Bars & Beach/Pool Bars (THAFAEAJ), All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

Keywords

• Seafood restaurant
• Oyster bar
• Beachfront dining
• Live music venue
• Casual dining

Headquarters

HQ city

Sarasota

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Primary revenue stream from restaurant operations including seafood, oysters, wings, burgers, craft cocktails, beer, wine, and brunch menu items sold directly to dine-in customers.
2. Merchandise and Gift Certificates: Online sales of SKOB branded merchandise including apparel, hot sauce, and gift certificates through the company's e-commerce shop.
3. Happy Hour Power Hour: Daily 3-4-5 Power Hour promotions featuring discounted draft beers ($3), wells/jagers/fireball ($4), and house wines ($5) to drive off-peak traffic.
4. Oyster Happy Hour: Big G's Oyster Happy Hour from 3pm-6pm daily offering house oysters at $12 per dozen, distinct from regular menu pricing of $12.50 half dozen / $22.50 dozen.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Siesta Key Oyster Bar operates a single-location, walk-in only beachfront restaurant and bar in Siesta Key Village, Sarasota, FL, serving a full food menu (oysters, seafood, wings, burgers, brunch), cocktails, beer, and wine. The venue also hosts live music events and sells branded merchandise, apparel, hot sauce, and gift certificates through an online e-commerce shop.

Product overview

Siesta Key Oyster Bar is a beachfront restaurant and bar offering a unified dining and entertainment experience. The core offering consists of three integrated service pillars: a comprehensive food menu featuring fresh oysters, seafood, award-winning wings, and burgers; a full drink menu with craft cocktails, extensive beer selections, and wines; and a live music program with daily performances. Additionally, the business operates an e-commerce shop selling branded merchandise including apparel, hot sauce, gift certificates, and SKOB gear. Sunday brunch service provides a specialized menu distinct from the regular food offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 182 live music events scheduled on calendar
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. National tourist-oriented seafood chain commonly found in beach/destination markets. Provides a benchmark for how destination seafood concepts scale operations and merchandise; relevant to SKOB's potential brand-merchandise extension.
• Bonefish Grill: National polished-casual seafood chain serving a similar fresh-fish, full-bar menu structure. Useful reference for comparable unit economics and seafood menu engineering, though it competes in a different (chain, mid-market) segment.
• Marina Jack: Larger, established Sarasota waterfront seafood operator with multiple concepts (dining room, yacht club, lounge). Overlaps SKOB on seafood menu and tourist traffic but operates at a higher price point and at greater scale, providing a useful broader-market reference for the Sarasota seafood category.

Direct peers

• O'Leary's Tiki Bar & Grill: Sarasota-based beachy casual restaurant and bar with sand-floor seating, live music, and a seafood-heavy menu. Closely comparable casual beach-bar business model serving overlapping Sarasota and Siesta Key tourist traffic.
• Walt's Fish Market & Restaurant: Long-running Sarasota seafood market and sit-down restaurant known for fresh local fish. Competes directly with SKOB for the Sarasota fresh-seafood diner and offers a useful benchmark for locally-sourced seafood positioning.
• The Cottage (Siesta Key): Siesta Key Village restaurant and bar serving a similar casual beach-dining audience with similar pricing and walk-in traffic model. Directly competes for evening foot traffic in the Village alongside SKOB.
• Crab & Fin Restaurant: Sarasota-based upscale-casual seafood restaurant focused on fresh fish and shellfish. Direct comparable on menu structure (oysters, fresh catch, seafood specials) and Sarasota customer base, though at a higher price tier than SKOB.
• Captain Curt's Crab House: Sarasota/Siesta Key area casual seafood and crab house with a similar laid-back, value-driven seafood positioning. Comparable menu focus (oysters, crab, shrimp) and overlapping tourist-and-local customer base.
• The Beach Club Restaurant (Siesta Key): Adjacent Siesta Key casual seafood and live-music beach restaurant serving the same tourist-and-local mix with comparable pricing and walk-in operations. Directly competes for the same discretionary beach-dining dollars in Siesta Key Village.
• Daiquiri Deck Raw Bar: Direct competitor located in the same Siesta Key Village micro-market, operating a beach-bar/raw-bar concept with live music and similar happy hour-driven traffic model. The accessibility statement on SKOB's own website references 'daiquirideck.com', underscoring the tight overlap in operating model, customer base, and geographic catchment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/skoysterbar
• Facebookfacebook.com/skoysterbar
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/siesta-key-oyster-bar

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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