01-11-2005, 18:19
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17 years same company
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
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.
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Actually most of the profit is in food sales where the mark up is high and publicans are not beholden to the brewery for sales. The mark up on wet sales is very small.
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