ADDENDUM: A senior philosopher elsewhere writes: "My sense is things may have changed a bit since 2009: with the exception of community colleges, almost everybody wants pubs. Most students [at a top 30ish PhD program where this philosopher taught] compete for teaching jobs, and our sense there was things start to look good after 3 pubs. Quality of venue mattering much less at weaker places." I'm opening this for further comments on whether things have chnaged since 2009 and what people's experience is more recently.