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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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heh, food attracts a huge amount of custom, especially at lunch and dinner times, also people who eat food also drink, removing food is going to remove a fair bit more money than that. If you want food, you are going to go to a pub which serves food, on the other hand if there were a complete ban on smoking, people who wanted to smoke would still go to the pub, but smoke outside.
This does of course change from pub to pub, one which serves only chips and sandwitches will likely opt to remove their food, whilst pubs like wetherspoons would be better keeping it.
Also as a sidenote - many people here have been saying that pubs will not be able to manage to stay open if they ban smoking.
What about wetherspoons then? They are banning smoking voluntarily, and afaik are the most sucessful pub chain in britain.