Bag's Rants

A sign of things to come in the Pub trade.

Seems JD Wetherspoon's profits dipped when they introduced a smoking ban at some of their pubs. Read more here.

Although fear not Mr Wetherspoon, or whoever. You will get your wish and because it will be across the board your customers won't have anywhere else to go to who can give them what they want.

There will undoubtedly be a drop across the whole market. Every time I've gone into a pub it's always been full of smokers. They may only make up 25% of the population but they seem to make up 80%¹ of all the people in the pubs. Of course any made unemployed due to lower profits across the market will be able to be on the dole knowing that their lungs are not full of passive smoke. Perhaps we should have offered masks to those who are really concerned. Although, if I was concerned about passive smoke I would not have chosen a job in the pub industry in the first place. But, of course that is me.

1) Please note that 93.43% of all statistics are made up on the spot. I'm referring to the 80% one as I believe the 25% one is true and it just seems there is more smokers than non smokers in pubs to about that proportion.

posted by Bag @ 6:01 pm