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Doug,

So you're suggesting the wine glass sales must bear the brunt of all venue expenses? Are you serious?

So.. are you telling me that if someone comes in to watch a band because there is a live music performance and by doing so, they buy a glass of wine for 5 dollars which results in 3 dollar profit (most real world wine glass sales are 60%+ profit) that because that person is there, it costs an additional 2.40 to serve them than it would have cost if they had not bought that glass of wine? If you ran a small venue that sold wine and had live music you'd know better. That's an EXTRA sale and thus the profit is real. It may go to your OTHER expenses, but without that extra glass of wine sold, the venue would have LOST that 3 dollars off their profit margin. The same staff has to be there. The same light bill. The same rent. The same cost of food. The same everything. The point of the entire discussion is that any decent artists should provide extra sales which means EXTRA profit to pay the OTHER bills. If you don't understand the obviousness of that point you better never try to run a small venue.

Brian