Jerez is almost bursting with licensed premises. There are 1,340
of them for a population of 211,900. These are mainly bars and tabancos (974) and
restaurants, but also hotels and discotheques. In fact there is one for every
158 citizens, a figure much higher than the national average of 1 for 235
citizens. 449 drinks licences have been issued over the last 12 years.
Statistics never tell the full story, however. Some bars are
only open occasionally, some are just not really viable, and for some that
close, others open. The business has a certain seasonality due to tourism. The
problem began in the 1980s, when many bodega workers were made redundant, some
of whom decided to open a bar. Like many an expat Brit in the Costas, they
discovered that neither was it as easy as they thought, nor was it as
profitable. Especially not during the current crisis.
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