Supper Finance
Interesting details of the cost of running smait dance clubs and suppcrrestaumhts were given recently by the leading, authority on the subject, states tho ""Daily"Mail!" One of London's most successful suppei-restaurants is now taking on an average £2200 a week, bujt so expensive is tho upkeep in tho way' of .orchestra, cabaret, and so on, that \th\s leaves only a profit of £1001a weak. "It is all due," stated an authority, ' 'to the 'falling off in the consumption.' of wine, particularly champagne. I Ipnly wish someone .connected with the wine trade would start a campaign to interest women in hocks, clarets, burgumdies,.and moselles. Three yeaTs ago we .made a profit of £12,000 in six months. At that time wo-would sell as many.as .200 bottles of champagne in a single evening. Six months ago the averse had dropped to >130 bottles. ' It has1 now sunk to 80.,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 9
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148Supper Finance Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 9
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