Despite being located in a hotel, the former Town & Country clientele was 80percentt locals.
Though the former Gardner and Miller clientele will be important during the first year of business, Robin knows the future of the business is new referrals.
The defense establishment is still dominated by men reared in cold war enmity; the competition for sales has reinforced the notion that America is an unfriendly rival whose success comes at Russia's expense, particularly since NATO has expanded its membership and hence its arms clientele into the former Soviet bastion of Central Europe.
La Maddalena Hotel and Yacht Club, where I stayed during my September visit, is a 100-room property that has taken over the island's former Boat Arsenal and caters to a clientele who, like me, wants that mix of comfort and sea access.
"Hotels, particularly those with conference centers, have to become like chameleons on weekends and cater to a resort clientele," said Steven Schragis, a former executive vice president of the Doral Hotel Corporation.
Dealers who had been selling heroin to the same small group of drug users for years suddenly found themselves with a booming new clientele of, as one former dealer from Everett recalled, "upper- and middle-class children".
For that, the main clientele is immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
With doctors who speak central Asian languages and cheap prices for customers without insurance, Mayak's main clientele is people from the former Soviet Union, especially Kyrgyz.
It is safe to assume that it will then once again attract a celebrity clientele of a calibre similar to former regulars Sophia Loren, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Its clientele today consists chiefly of grizzled former roadies, ageing 80s hair-metal bands still waiting for their moment, and greying women who appear to view Pamela Anderson as the pinnacle of taste and sophistication.
