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Originally Posted by andyl
In Greater Manchester 53% of licensees have said they will stop serving food as a result of this useless fudge. A total ban would have seen food kept - yummy! - and smoking removed. A far better idea surely?!
Ok, I'm off. Only so many times you can go around a roundabout befored the view gets stale!
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Well, if you think about it, in most pubs, their wet sales (booze) far outweigh their dry sales (food)
Alot of the drink sales are from people who smoke and drink.
Cut out smoking, and you cut out a huge amount of the drink sales.
For example, say a pub takes in £6000 a night from drink, but only £500 from food.
They cut out smoking, their drink sales drop by £2000, their food sales go up by £200.
They're now losing money.
Or they could cut out the food and keep the drinkers, so they're only £500 down instead of £1800.