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  • Cafe business up in smoke (smoking ban closes restaurant)

    12/20/2002 10:10:51 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 311 replies · 8,347+ views
    The Citizen Auburn NY ^ | Friday, December 20, 2002 | By Mary Bulkot / Staff Writer
    SAVANNAH NY- A ban on smoking has snuffed the life out of their D&S Diner, Susan and Doug Devall say. The owners of the village's only diner, one of the few businesses on Main Street, say they will close for good Dec. 29. They blame Wayne County's no-smoking law, which passed in January. We'd still be here, Doug Devall said, if the law hadn't passed. The couple opened the diner in August 2000, after a string of businesses failed at the same location. Although the diner didn't turn a profit in its first year, the two expected to operate in...