One of them, who has been in business for over 100 years, is considering just closing outright..... That is so sad.
One thing the antis absolutely refuse to look at are the economic ramifications of these sort of things. they all bandy about the 'study" done that supposedly "proves" the smoking ban has been good for the restaurant industry in California.
However, what they fail to acknowledge is that study was not confined to bars and sit-down restaurants. It also included receipts from take-out, fast food, and catering. Omit those and htere would be a different picture painted.
And when it came to comparisons of liquor receipts in another area (sorry I forget where) they included receipts of all alcohol sales, including from off-sale locations.
Talk about mixing apples and oranges.
That is the problem with these surveys. They are not broken down by type of restruant and as with all envirocommie science, tilted or designed to produce certain results. If you or I walk into a McDonald's or Burger King, we expect it to be smoke free. When we walk into a Chili's or Applebee's we expect there to be a smoking and non-smoking section. The problem is that the holier-than-thou crowd wants to impose their way of life on others. This now is being applied to condos and even apartment complexes in Commiefornia. Now there even some neighborhood associations in the San Jose area claiming that second hand smoke outside from a smoker's back yard or porch is harmful and they are going to ban (!) smoking in your own back or front yard. It's like I said, once a freedom is lost, it's gone forever. Look for free speech, gun ownership, and the rest to follow.