All things retro, food in nightclubs

mikemac · 2011-01-20 01:13:35

When had this thread over in another forum about the good old days in the 1990's when nightclubs served free food http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056136783 It seemed that it was a requirement to serve food to satisfy the license the nightclub needed. Was this the legal reason? I've been trying to see why…

20-01-2011 01:13AM

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mikemac

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When had this thread over in another forum about the good old days in the 1990's when nightclubs served free food
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056136783

It seemed that it was a requirement to serve food to satisfy the license the nightclub needed. Was this the legal reason?

I've been trying to see why this ended but after much searching cannot find this

Anyone know? Bring it back I say

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#2 20-01-2011 01:45AM

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I was at the beer fest in the IFSC the last 2 years, I think they used this law and it's still in operation. You had to pay in but then you got a food voucher to cover the admission charge.
It should have never been scrapped, great to get a bit of free grub.

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#3 20-01-2011 12:19PM

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I'm not sure where it is now but it goes back to the 70s when cabaret joints with restaurants attached to them exploited a loophole whereby a person consuming a 'substantial' meal could be served drink for an hour after normal closing time.

The definition of a substantial meal was that it was a meal that could be considered a meal in itself or as the main course of a meal 'and for which it would be reasonable to charge not less than 50p' - 63 cents in todays money.

This gave rise to the chicken dinners at cabaret spots all over the country. You paid an admission charge which included the meal and you got a voucher for the meal, most of the vouchers were never redeemed because almost everyone was there for the extra hour at the bar.

Any of the old style dance halls that hadn't been killed by discos were completely wiped out by this development as it meant that in most towns on a Saturday night there was a big migration from the pubs to the cabaret spots at closing time for an extra hour's drinking.

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