TEA ROOM STIR

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 13

TEA ROOM STIR

SUGGESTED GLASGOW TAX. Tho fame of Glasgow's tea rooms, of which there are hundreds, may soon be causing the proprietors some trouble. A tax is proposed! It is estimated that if a tax were proposed on cups of tea—-and perhaps coffee—sold it would yield a revenue of over £4,000 a day, or more than a million and a-quarter sterling a year, omitting Sundays. iMr James Denholm, president of tho Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association, asks “ Why not?” He quotes a prominent caterer to the effect that very good tea could bo bought for 2s per lb, which would produce anything from 100 to 150 cups. He speaks of a profit of about 90 per cent. “ Tho obvious reply to this,” a tea room proprietor says, “is that even tea requires to bo prepared and served, which means labour, utensils, power, sugar and cream, wear and tear, etc., a suggested profit of 90 per cent, is absurd.”