Until recently, no one knew how much fruit changes hands in a typical library. Or at least, no one was telling. Thankfully, the de facto information embargo is now lifted. Anyone who is willing to shell out ?38 can find out by obtaining a copy of a report called The Survey of Library Cafes….
The crowd-pleasing highlight is a section called “Mean, Median, Minimum and Maximum of Percentage of Total Revenues of the Library Cafe or Restaurant Accounted for by Sales of Fruit, Broken Out by Number of Annual Visitors to the Library“….
So say portions of this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 12:01 am
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