Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1919 — Soda Fountains Are More Profitable Than Liquor Bars in New York City [ARTICLE]

Soda Fountains Are More Profitable Than Liquor Bars in New York City

Most of the soft drinks now sold are too sweet to suit the taste of the average man, according to a writer in the New York Commercial. Old-fash-ioned ginger beer and ginger ale made with real ginger, instead of red pepper, or capsicum, as the trade calls the extract, would make a hit when prohibition comes in force. Raspberry vinegar, loganberry juice, pure apple juice, grape juice, lemonade and similar drinks should command a large sale in the soft drink bars and our hotels after July 1 next. The great thing is to give the people pure beverages at fair prices. Today soda fountains are more profitable than liquor bars in many parts of New York city. In the alco-hol-less poor men’s clubs of the prohibition period that will supplant saloons, the secret of success seems to He in furnishing beverages that do not clog or sicken. There are plenty, if those in the business are wise and honest enough to sell them.