Welcome to The Baxter

The Baxter brings you an experience like no other bar in the NC Triangle Area. Its nerd-chic atmosphere provides the backdrop for over fifty vintage and original arcade games along with a priceless collection of pop-art, TV/movie props, and toys. We serve quality libations at our full bar, which you can enjoy at our outdoor patio space, two indoor lounge areas, our hightop table areas, or at the bar itself while you soak in the sights and sounds of The Baxter.

PLEASE NOTE: – Kids and young adults are welcome every Saturday and Sunday from 12 PM-6 PM, or during the week from 3PM to 6PM! Children or young adults under the age of 21 must be accompanied by a card carrying member of The Baxter.

1 hour ago
The Baxter

Family Day
12pm-6pm
*under 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian

Just a reminder we’ve switched over to tokens, so quarters won’t work in our games any more. Nothing changes minus the type of coin that’ll work on the games. Same as quarters the change machine will dispense 4 tokens for $1. We know a lot of kids liked to save quarters for the weekend, so please let them know we’re sorry! It’s something we had to do for the sanity of our employees and the game tech. Trust me trying to find quarters when there are none, while running an arcade is not a good time. This will fix that!

Other than that, nothing changes, and shoot us a message if you’d like to reserve a spot for a birthday party!

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Family Day
12pm-6pm
*under 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian

Just a reminder we’ve switched over to tokens, so quarters won’t work in our games any more.  Nothing changes minus the type of coin that’ll work on the games.  Same as quarters the change machine will dispense 4 tokens for $1.  We know a lot of kids liked to save quarters for the weekend, so please let them know we’re sorry!  It’s something we had to do for the sanity of our employees and the game tech.  Trust me trying to find quarters when there are none, while running an arcade is not a good time.  This will fix that!

Other than that, nothing changes, and shoot us a message if you’d like to reserve a spot for a birthday party!

🖤🕹️🖤🕹️🖤
1 day ago
The Baxter

Just a friendly reminder we’ve switched over to tokens (quarters won’t work on the games now). Nothing changes, $1 still gets you 4 tokens, which all games will now use. Still working on the pool table and sticker machine, but the rest are good to go! A few of the games will still take $1 bills as well.

Why did we do this?

I know some folks are disappointed due to saving quarters for their gaming needs, but for our sanity it was very, very necessary. Ever since Covid getting quarters to fill our change machine has been nothing short of a challenge. It could take weeks to scrounge up enough quarters and would require one of us to constantly be on call to sometimes empty games at all hours if the quarters were low, and we couldn’t replenish our backup. Tokens will make sure our change machine is stocked at all times and none of us will have to scramble out of bed on a busy night because all the change is gone. Like I said it really doesn’t change any thing minus using a different coin for the games. And NO you can’t buy drinks with tokens to the person who asked the other night. Nice try though!

We plan on doing limited edition tokens down the road as well, where we’ll only mint a few for ones collecting purposes. Rumor has it there might even be a PiePan coin at some point…

Thanks for being patient as we switch over!
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Does the token machine take 25¢? Only used paper money on it…

Andrew Meadors there is quarter insert on the change machine, but it doesn’t work at the moment. We’ve got it taped off until we figure out how to fix it

How much did Jeff swear while manually adjusting all the coin doors?

Crib Ribb it was a full swap out of the mechs

Crib Ribb It wasn’t too bad, mostly did my swearing under my breath 🤬😜

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2 days ago
The Baxter

Only 2 more months until we retreat from the world for several weeks. We cannot wait! 100 hours? I’ll raise you 200 hours… ... See MoreSee Less

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3 days ago
The Baxter

BaxterTrivia tonight at 8:30pm!

4 unique rounds, teams of 6 and prizes for each round winner and grand champion.
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BaxterTrivia tonight at 8:30pm!

4 unique rounds, teams of 6 and prizes for each round winner and grand champion.
4 days ago
The Baxter

Remember these things? Well we have one now, so come relive the good ole days as you and several friends sit huddled around it.

We know you’re gonna ask so….Yes it has PhotoHunt after 6pm.
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Remember these things?  Well we have one now, so come relive the good ole days as you and several friends sit huddled around it.  

We know you’re gonna ask so….Yes it has PhotoHunt after 6pm.
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