but cl9 star hotels is quite another wider discussions could have been held but this being a decision of the judiciary we cannot argue much we are focusing on increasing the strength of our marketing team and chalking out a plan that includes renewed focus on activities not involving liquor a manager of a hotel on the bengalurupune highway saidla classic on hosur road which has 76 rooms and earns a revenue of rs 24 lakh per month from its food and beverages section will see onethird of it getting wiped off of this rs 5lakh comes from liquor thats a direct business loss nonavailability of liquor will also affect food sales as some customers may not come in said ashok s general manager at la classicabout 80 of our clients are corporates from hosur and bommanahalli industrial areas and there arent too many leisure customers so were contemplating using 1day licences to accommodate their parties and events which rules permit us to do he saidoneday licences have been in currency for a while and the excise department grants them at a cost a senior excise official said right now a hotel can apply for as many singleday licences as it requires and we issue it as per rules but ashok and a few other managers said the cost is much higher which will be a major challenge