Business phone system for drinking places in Mississippi

Drinking places in Mississippi by the numbers

County Business Patterns counts 116 establishments in Mississippi classified as Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (NAICS 722410) for 2023. They employed 1,028 people in mid-March and reported $22.1 million in annual payroll. That is the 48th highest count among the 51 states and DC with published figures. Drinking places make up 0.19% of the 60,465 business establishments in the state.

Per 100,000 residents (2024 estimate) Mississippi has 3.9 drinking places, 67.2% below the national rate of 12.0. The average establishment has 8.9 employees against 10.6 nationally. Payroll per employee is $21,540, 15.9% below the U.S. figure of $25,612.

Where drinking places in Mississippi are concentrated

Census published bar counts for 9 metro or micropolitan areas that include part of Mississippi. The largest is Gulfport, MS, with 54 establishments. Single-state metro and micropolitan areas account for 78% of the statewide total; the rest are outside any published area or in areas Census suppressed.

Team sizes at drinking places in Mississippi

39.5% of Mississippi's drinking places with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023, compared with 38.7% nationally. 73.7% had fewer than ten. That is the size of team where a missed call usually means nobody was free, not that nobody was on staff.

Why the phone matters for drinking places in Mississippi

Bars and taverns take calls about events, private parties and hours, often when the room is too loud to hear the phone. Capturing those calls helps book parties.

A few of the calls that come in to drinking places in Mississippi:

• A band calls about booking a gig.
• A customer calls about trivia night.
• A guest calls about reserving space for a birthday.

When nobody can pick up

Bars are open late, so calls during service need capture and callback.

Callata voicemail is transcribed and triaged for urgency, and business-hours routing decides where calls go once you close.

What a phone system costs a bar in Mississippi

Drinking places in Mississippi average 8.9 employees, so the comparison uses a 9-person team. Priced per seat, 9 users would run $270.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $224.55 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 9 people cost $179.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $1,092. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Area codes in Mississippi

Mississippi has 5 geographic area codes in service according to NANPA. You can choose local numbers in the area codes your guests know, subject to carrier inventory, or port your current number for free.

How Callata works for drinking places in Mississippi

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Mississippi, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.