The business model, which clearly is not working, is her fault - not that of the customers. People go there for the food because they serve food and she makes a point of advertising the food. It is clearly not a “drinks only” establishment.

“I am not sure what part of “We are a bar not a restaurant. If you don’t want to drink alcohol, we have an excellent range of low sugar mocktails and non alcoholic alternatives” you are not comprehending.” 

The establishment in question offers food and drink. They also heavily advertise the food on their facebook page. She can call it whatever she wants, but it functions as a restaurant and there are people who go there specifically for the food (which is on offer to bring in customers). The customers the owner is…

You don’t have to take my word for it - you can just read the statement; it’s a direct acknowledgement.

“The hurricane mistake might be the verbal equivalent of a typo, sure.”

The statement clearly acknowledges the fact that Russia helped him get elected.

I hope you’re joking, because clearly they certainly are.

The establishment in question has a food service - the customers the owner is complaining about are the ones ordering food but only water to drink with it. 

You actually think people would be willing to pay a “seat charge” when they are paying for a meal? Would you be willing to do that?

The scenario you describe is not what the owner of Bristol Spirit is complaining about - she’s complaining about people ordering food but only water to drink with it, which is not at all uncommon. She simply has a terrible business model and is blaming the customers when it’s her own fault.

The problem is their own terrible / unsustainable business model; they aren’t even taking enough of a fee from the pop-ups to cover the cost of the remodeling they did to accommodate them.

From their website:

Bristol Spirit isn’t a drinks-only establishment.

Lol keep telling yourself whatever you need to tell yourself, Daniel. Reading your comments is like reading Trump’s twitter posts.

The fact that you had to google that isn’t really working to your benefit here - though it did make me literally laugh out loud.

I did read your comment, which says:

This isn’t a situation of customers bringing in outside food - the establishment hosts pop-ups, meaning a food vendor uses the on-site kitchen to prepare the food they are selling to customers on site. Establishment owners will typically either rent the kitchen out to the pop-ups or take a cut of their sales. 

Lack of reading comprehension skills. There’s a difference. Great job proving that point (again), though.

Given that they have food service (which they advertise, by the way), it’s not at all unreasonable that one out of ten customers might either be designated drivers or simply not want to drink anything but water with their meals.

“when 14 of 26 seats at a bar are being occupied by tap water drinkers it is a problem.”