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Robert Feal-Martinez 01/11/2007 12:24:59 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban I knew the Sir Robert Peel in my youth when living in Walton on Thames. It was always considered an up market venue. I am far from a prude but do we want traditional pubs turned into 'strip joints'. These type of events will always be perceived as attracting the 'dirty raincoat' brigade. Not really the sought of Family pub the Industry is trying to encourage. This post replies to this thread |
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| Alastair Elliott 01/11/2007 13:38:18 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban Well then, I wonder what HMG think of this then, is this what they had in mind when implementing the Smoking ban ! This post replies to this thread |
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Bryan Turner 01/11/2007 14:18:26 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban I tend to turn the other cheek This post replies to this thread |
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| Graham Allman 01/11/2007 15:12:32 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban This has to be said , I like to keep abreast of the times .( oh god , did i really say that?) This post replies to Bryan Turner > RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban |
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| Alan Taylor 01/11/2007 15:37:42 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban 'Growth' in the industry at least, but with even more 'overheads' This is stuff from the dark ages of dockside boozers, if i needed to resort to these sort of 'figures' to source income it would be time to pack in. At least i suppose the turns will be protected from secondhand 'smoke in the workplace'. Wonder where they will store there baccy. This post replies to Graham Allman > RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban |
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d s 01/11/2007 15:59:14 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban Perhaps the government will be even happier when we go back even further to the days of the wild west, we can have dancing girls doing the can-can and prostitues in residence upstairs! Mind you, it would not be long before the supermarkets followed suite, 5 strippers for twenty quid! This post replies to this thread |
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| Nicola Monks 01/11/2007 15:59:30 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban I may have found myself a new career when I leave the pub game then ..... !! This post replies to Alan Taylor > RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban |
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| guy Arnold 01/11/2007 17:37:05 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban All this would be unnecessary if pubs just focused on the expanding market! seriously, anyone who can't run a succesful outlet, when the market for eating and drinking out is increasing at circa 10% p.a. needs help! the answer: Simple things done well!!!! This post replies to this thread |
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| Bill Gibson 01/11/2007 19:11:41 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban Guy, what happens when you are wet led with no facility to be able to offer food preperation facilities. Then how do you equate your figures when your overhead will rise from 13% as a wet led to 27% with food. Then account for bank rate rises that hit the eating out market which to be honest is vastly over subscribed alraedy. So come on...tell all, especially now that food and drink has taken over as the demon that causes cancer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=490845&in_page_id=1774&in_page_id=1774&expand=true#StartComments This post replies to guy Arnold > RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban |
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| guy Arnold 01/11/2007 20:05:08 |
RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban Bill: strippers might be a great answer, but it is patently wrong to say that anyone is forced to do it. Some pubs will become unviable and should be closed asap before anyone loses too much money, but, in my view (i have visited literally hundreds of pubs) many are so focused on all the stuff they can't do, they miss the one or two great opportunities for the simple things (done well) that they could do. I don't think food is the universal panacea, but if I had a fiver for each publican who said they 'couldn't sell food' , then I go outside the front door to be faced with fish & chips, pizza, kebabs, curry, chinese etc, (all doing very nicely thankyou) I'd be very rich! The figures I quote are not mine, they are from the office of national statistics!! Pubicans need to GET REAL or go out of business: you cannot avoid Darwin's law. Eating and drinking out is the future, and this need NOT increase costs dramatically at all: what if they just offered the best bacon sarnies in town! Costa, starbucks etc seem to offer great snacks in spaces very similar to most bars. Where there's a will there's a way! the problem is that in many cases, the will is too often not there in the licensed trade. We have a simple choice: we can either: sit about and whinge while going bust. or: we can get on, change and adapt and make some money. Anyone who can't make money (as long as rents etc are sensible) in one of the fastest growing markets in the UK, needs to ask themselves some really searching questions ... The secret to success is: simple things done well! This post replies to Bill Gibson > RE: Pubs turn to strippers to combat smoke ban |
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