On 22/06/2015 11:26, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
alan_m wrote:
No. The non smoking mafia have at least as much responsibility. Saying
the reason they didn't use a local was because of the smoke. But when
it was banned, still didn't use it.


But there are many pubs still packed out

Given there are fewer, it's hardly surprising remaining ones are doing
reasonably well. Otherwise they'd have closed too...

No, the point is that many pubs are packed but in the same general area
you will still find empty pubs waiting to fail. It's not the case that
number of customers exceed the capacity of the pubs. Well run pubs
survive, badly run pubs tend to die.


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