This bar is where Sookie Stackhouse works and spends most of her time. Many employees blow in and out of Merlotte's including Arlene Fowler, Holly Cleary, Danielle Gray, Lafayette Reynolds, Terry Bellefleur, Sweetie Des Arts, Charles Twinning, Tanya Grissom, and Charlsie Tooten. Merlotte's is known as a "family bar".