Bounce Milwaukee: Keeping it local
We're not a huge franchise; we're not a multinational corporation or an affiliate of one. We're locally owned, and we support other local businesses as often as we can. Here are just some of our partners. We hope you'll support them, too!
Shop Local FIRST, Milwaukee (with Local First Milwaukee!)
Local First Milwaukee is an alliance of alliance of local, independent businesses and non-profits, and we're a proud member. Head to the site, and check out the many ways that you can support independently owned business that give back to the community (and keep more of your money in Milwaukee). Take the pledge to shift 10% of your spending to local businesses, show us a receipt from any other member, and we'll buy you a (locally made) drink with any admission.
Ice Cream!
Not just any ice cream, Milwaukee's locally-made and owned Purple Door Ice Cream is the best there is. Handcrafted in small batches, and with a ridiculously decadent 14% butterfat content, the ingredients are sourced locally and responsibly.
Cupcakes!
What's a party without gourmet, locally-made cupcakes? The phenomenal staff at Classy Girl Cupcakes handcrafts every one of the cupcakes available at Bounce Milwaukee. You can request any of their more than 58 different cupcakes for your party at Bounce, all made from scratch with local ingredients. In between parties, be sure to stop by their shop on Jefferson and get your cupcake fix on.
BEER!
Bounce Milwaukee is proud to feature taps from Milwaukee's own Lakefront and Sprecher, Wisconsin originals Ale Asylum, New Glarus and Central Waters, along with many other local favorites (and, grudgingly, some pretty good imports, too). We feature nearly 100 beers (and our beer menu is sorted by the distance from the brewery to us)
CHeese!
Sourcing local cheese isn't difficult (we are in Wisconsin, after all), but we do take great pride in not only using Wisconsin mozzarella, but knowing that we're also helping to keep Bayview's roads free of ice during our long winters.
Coffee!
Born in 1999, Anodyne Coffee Roasting Company is a locally owned, small batch roaster proudly working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They're good to their employees, do good in the community, and make phenomenally good coffee.
SoDA!
Bounce Milwaukee proudly serves up Glendale's own Sprecher sodas, which are the finest in the world. Not only are they made locally, but they contain raw honey and vanilla. They source many of their ingredients from Wisconsin, too! We use some awesome products from Dang!, too!
Compost!
We're excited to support Kompost Kids and their efforts to compost as much of our food residuals and other compostable materials as possible! Thanks for taking the time to separate your compostables (and recyclables) from the few things we send to the landfill!
Limousines!
Cheesehead Limousines provides the transportation for our VIP party guests, and ensures that every guest feels special from the moment they're picked up, escorted to their party experience and brought safely (and luxuriously) back home again.
The Logo!
That swanky Bounce Milwaukee logo was conceived and designed by Milwaukee's own Rik DeMeyer at Focust Design.
T-Shirts (and capes)!
The amazing t-shirts worn by our equally amazing staff are printed by the amazing printers at Orchard Street Press. They use environmentally friendly, sustainable inks and they even have an etsy store if you want to get some of your own Wisconsin-repping swag. If your infant could talk, she would tell you she wants one of those "Represent" onesies.
Architecture and construction!
Thomas E. Vavra IV from Vavra Design is the Milwaukee-based architect behind the feats of engineering at Bounce Milwaukee, from the mezzanine and bar to the laser tag arena and private party rooms.
Professional Construction Management from Wauwatosa was responsible for transforming the space using many teams of subcontractors, and keeping everything on-track and on-schedule.
Cubic Designs in New Berlin engineered and built the state-of-the art bar/observation area and laser-tag mezzanines.
Professional Construction Management from Wauwatosa was responsible for transforming the space using many teams of subcontractors, and keeping everything on-track and on-schedule.
Cubic Designs in New Berlin engineered and built the state-of-the art bar/observation area and laser-tag mezzanines.
The Pizza OvenS!
Even our pizza ovens were born here in Milwaukee! We use top-of-the line, super-efficient Ovention ovens to ensure that every pizza comes to you quickly and perfectly.
Wristbands!
The wristbands that we use are from right here in Wisconsin. Each one is lovingly hand-drawn (okay, printed), by the team at Wristband Resources in New Berlin.
Our Employees!
We can't show you any pictures of the process, but many of our employees were made here in Milwaukee, too! We're proud to support our employees with fair wages and bonuses when we do well, since they're responsible for our success as well as your good memories. Bounce Milwaukee supports also supports legislation to raise the minimum wage and working conditions in our industry via the PRAWN and RAISE.
