Wish I'd Invested in Restaurant Banner Barrier Manufacture

In the last decade, England has become a café society. The primary requirement is tables on the pavement (sidewalk), rain or shine, summer or winter. But only in the last two or three years have
these tables come to be surrounded by special fabric barriers.

Spaghetti House on Goodge Street, Camden, London

Many, like Spaghetti House here, 

splashed out on pavement banners 

that bear their name.

Others, like Bella Italia, were more

discreet and only chose their colours.

Bella Italia on Argyll Street,
Westminister, London,
with Liberty in the background.
Compare also the
undistinguished
Westminster bollard with
City of London bollard

Either way, shops shelled out; the company making these barriers must be really hauling it in. Not to mention the manufacturers 

of canopies, table umbrellas, and stand-up outdoor table heaters for eating out in cold weather. 

Given the choice, I think I'd prefer to eat on Argyll Street (around the corner from Oxford Street Tube Station) which has been pedestrianized. Goodge Street has a lot of traffic, and it always seems strange to me to want to mix fumes with food... And besides, Bella Italia has much better food than Spaghetti House. Oh, how I dream of the smoked  chicken spaghetti that its predecessor, Bella Pasta, offered in the late 1990s. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.