Does anybody know a restaurant that has voluntarily banned smoking, besides McDonalds and other fast food places? If smoking bans were good ideas and good for business, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE would be doing it big-time.
Is there any objective evidence to indicate that this is the case?
We have a local Italian pizza restaurant that went smoke free about six months ago . I used to have lunch there about once a week, but when the ban went in effect I stopped going.
Last week I stopped to pick up a carry out pizza in the evening and they had a sign up SMOKING ALLOWED BETWEEN 11:00 AND 4:00 PM. I asked the cashier why they changed and she said they had lost most of their lunch business.......imagine that !!!