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Old 02-12-2013, 05:30 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Kybosh View Post
This is what I mean. The courses are PACKED and cancelled tee times always seem to get filled. Why aren't they profitable? Is the woman selling me a hotdog pulling in $100k+ a year in wages? As far as I can tell, they never do any maintenance aside from the bare minimum on any course other than Maple.
Paying union wages puts the city at a huge disadvantage when it comes to generating revenues. I don't know of any courses beside the city ones that have unionised staff.

Maple Ridge has a snack shack on hole 13 that is never open - lost money there when people wait for the backlog of golfers to clear. You also rarely see someone driving around in cart selling beer, snacks and soda.
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