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Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: wozzer38 on October 10, 2008, 12:06:58 PM: http://www.fseonline.co.uk/articles.asp?article_id=7964&viewcomment=1

I really can't believe a business would employ anyone stupid enough to suggest this in the first place!!!
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Mike Buckley on October 10, 2008, 12:39:50 PM: "There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe" A Einstein
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Chris Houston on October 10, 2008, 12:44:22 PM: In my personal experience, which includes visiting quite a lot of licensed premises as a paying customer, the use of candles and tea lights is quite common. Anyone who has been to the wine bar named after the famous gin between Charring Cross train station and Embankment tube station will note is is almost exclusivly lit by candle light in the rear basement area. One of my favourite places by the way.
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: nearlythere on October 10, 2008, 03:34:13 PM: Quote from: Chris Houston
In my personal experience, which includes visiting quite a lot of licensed premises as a paying customer, the use of candles and tea lights is quite common. Anyone who has been to the wine bar named after the famous gin between Charring Cross train station and Embankment tube station will note is is almost exclusivly lit by candle light in the rear basement area. One of my favourite places by the way.
I should strongly advise you that, in order to ensure your safety, you cease frequenting this place immediately. Much safer to stay at home with a soda pop and a riveting episode of Neighbours.
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: AM on October 10, 2008, 03:45:12 PM: One dodgy nightclub I used to frequent in Chester had a great idea - every time someone ordered a flaming sambuca, the barman would drizzle cocoa powder on it that would create a brief 3ft fireball behind the bar, so nothing would surprise me about what bars and clubs will do without realising its a hazard.
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Dinnertime Dave on October 13, 2008, 01:42:28 PM: 12 months ago I responded to a complaint from a concerned member of the public who had been to a shop that had candles within its Christmas displays. He said that we only do it on busy days and he couldn`t see the problem. He had no control measures in place, in fact he didn`t have any risk assessments for or control measures for anything they did. He only stopped it after somebody at head office told him to do as he was told.

Some months later on a revisit he told me that his takings on candles had dropped by 10K per week.
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Chris Houston on October 13, 2008, 01:57:33 PM: Must be nice to sell half a million pounds worth of candle per annum. Perhaps he ought to have invested in proper control measures.
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Dinnertime Dave on October 13, 2008, 02:03:18 PM: Quote from: Chris Houston
Must be nice to sell half a million pounds worth of candle per annum. Perhaps he ought to have invested in proper control measures.
Sorry Chris, it was only 10K per week for a six week period up to Christmas. Not really worth it then!!
Title: Nightclub fined after severe candle burns
Post by: Big T on October 14, 2008, 11:07:49 AM: I don't think I remember a nice restraunt I have been to without candles? Or nice bars for that matter?