"Apart from all the guests, more than 100 million people saw the championship on the television so this has really put Wirral back on the tourist map."
Karen Illingworth, tourism skills and development manager forthe Mersey Partnership, said: "A lot of restaurants are telling me they've made the sorts of profits in one day that they would normally make in a week.
"It's been a huge success and even little, out-of-the-way places have seen a massive boost."
Nigel Piper, of Lino's restaurant, Hoylake, said: "It's been like Christmas without the snow. We've broken all our records."
Tony Darnell, owner of Hoylake's Le Boulevard restaurant, said: "I think we had everyone from the golf in here with the exception of Tiger Woods. It's exceeded all our expectations."
400,000 pints of beer. 250,000 cups of tea. 270,000 bottles of mineral water. 98,000 portions of fish and chips. 20,000 rounds of sandwiches. 25,000 punnets of strawberries. 5,000 bottles of champagne.
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