An interesting contrast to the Game Fair.
About 100,000 people attend over three days, bars are open all day long, and several hundreds will be shooting the clay competitions. Many exhibiters will be offering guests and customers a glass of wine, and there are several licensed restaurants, not least on the CLA stand. Been like that for 50 years with remarkably few KIA.
As to exhibition venues, over time I've probably set up and manned around a hundred stands, and can't recall a single instance where alcohol was forbidden by contract or the Ts & Cs. A few beers and a couple of bottles of wine were standard issue.
I have grave feelings of unkosherness about the original report.
Extract from the Ts and Cs of The National Exhibition Centre below....
Distribution or Gifts
No person shall distribute or give away any item of food, drink or tobacco not supplied by the Company without the express written consent of the Company. If the Company gives its consent and the circumstances are such that, in the opinion of the Company, the distribution or gift is liable to have a significant effect on the sale of food, drink or tobacco by the Company, the Company, as a condition of giving its consent, will be entitled to charge the Licensee such sums as the Company considers to be equivalent to the reduction in profits likely to be suffered by it as a result of the making of the distribution or gift.
ii Sales
No Exhibitor or Licensee may sell food, drink or tobacco to members of the public or trade exhibition visitors without the express written consent of the Company. Notice of intent to trade must be lodged with the Company at least two months prior to the start of the Licence Period. The Company may at its own discretion charge the Exhibitor or Licensee a franchise fee or commission.
The Centres are licensed tosell alcohol 24 hours per day, although in some instances the Company may require approval from the Police for late night alcohol sales.
In other words providing we get our cut, no problem.
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