Proprietors like Mr Zistatsis, whose clientele has dropped by 30% since 2005, feel distinctly miffed.
"Our European clientele has dropped 78percentt since Sept. 11," James Davis, a sales manager at Harlem Spirituals, a tour company, explained while standing in the balcony at Mount Neboh.
In today's transitional auto market, gauging consumer preferences is a tougher proposition: even for luxury brands who get to know their elite clientele (who can drop $200,000 on a car) pretty well. .
He has noticed a slight drop in clientele on Thursday and Friday nights, but that is about the only ill effect, he said.
However, recently McKnight's has seen a drop in its clientele due to the rise of microbreweries in the Portland area.
And Patrick Lavender, a bus driver who transports dozens of passengers a day between the airport and the Yale Club, said he thought his clientele would be fine with being dropped off around the corner.
With clientele like that, the price is unlikely to drop again anytime soon.
By 2010, the Village had a loyal clientele of government officials, journalists, and businessmen who dropped in for lunch, or for cappuccinos that cost the Somali equivalent of sixty cents.
Although celebrities sometimes dropped by, it was the daily clientele --police officers, tradesmen, lawyers and high school students -- for whom the closing of Dreesen's will leave a void.
The Signature Service branch 18 floors above Park Avenue inNew York soothes its clientele with classical music, cherrywood paneling, fresh flowers and drop-dead views of Manhattan.
