THE key to business success is to keep your customers coming back. And Richard and Jaqueline Nogle can't stay away from Bettys.

They met at the St Helen's Square tea rooms in 1955, were back in 1984 and have returned again this week.

Bettys must be an impressive draw to keep the Nogles dropping by all the way from their Florida home.

But the wartime generation will never forget how the caf and downstairs bar offered a brief haven from hardship.

And it still does a mean fat rascal.

Updated: 11:16 Tuesday, June 28, 2005