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Zeus posted...

It kinda does, since that's often where they make a lot of their profit.

They lose out on potential earnings, but there's rarely any direct loss associated with not selling drinks, outside of extreme cases. Drinks tend not to be particularly perishable, so provided you're selling enough to get through a shipment in less than a couple years, you'll be okay. Wine and milk are the most noteworthy exceptions, but in the case of wine, glasses are typically priced such that they lose very little on the opened bottle if they only sell 1-2 glasses and there are often many opportunities to use an opened bottle in the kitchen, and milk is used in so many food dishes that drink sales are a fairly small portion of that.

That said, as you say, drinks are a major revenue source for most restaurants, given that their high margins can compensate for lower prices on other items, so many restaurants' pricing schemes will operate under the assumption that a certain number of drinks are selling. If they don't sell that many drinks, that can lead to losing money overall, even though they aren't losing money on the drinks themselves.

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