Has smoking ban increased bar buisness?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Don't listen to him - like he's one to talk

...the wya I get jumpd on arownd heer buy yur Speling and Punkjewation Nazee krew, I take mi shotz when eye kan.

[Fugazi]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

See, I'd like to see how that little experiment would pan out. Because bar/restaurant owners have ALWAYS had the ability to go non-smoking. There must be a reason they didn't do it.

You want to be able to appease everyone especially in that type of biz, obviously.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

See, I'd like to see how that little experiment would pan out. Because bar/restaurant owners have ALWAYS had the ability to go non-smoking. There must be a reason they didn't do it.

...they weren't told to? What do I win?

[StrawberryGal]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

...the wya I get jumpd on arownd heer buy yur Speling and Punkjewation Nazee krew, I take mi shotz when eye kan.

[godsbutterfly]

Originally Posted by Fugazi

You want to be able to appease everyone especially in that type of biz, obviously.

And you know what happens with that is that you end up and somebody is still unhappy!

[cwo_ghwebb]

I was making money before, now MOM tells me what to do 'cause he's a socialist and is much smarter than dumb-azz me. I guess I was too dumb to realize I could double or triple my profits just by going non-smoking.

Next I think I'll have a non-alcoholic bar or a foodless restaurant, then I can really rake in the dough!

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

...how would bars and restraunts do for the last, oh, 2,000 years or so v. now?

No, it would be a completely different dynamic. Being that all the bars and restaurants were generally the same, you had an even playing field.

My bet is that if there were a SINGLE smoking alternative, ALL the smokers would flock there like the seagulls around Boardwalk Fries.





My guess is that the place would become so freaking popular, so freaking fast, that an interesting phenomenon would occur: Non-smokers would want to start going there because it's the new super-trendy-way-cool-new-awesome-hot-spot. But then they'd immediately start #####ing about all the smoke again, as is their wont, and the smoking would quickly be snuffed out there, eliminating the entire reason it became popular in the first place, and then the joint would wither on the vine.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Originally Posted by Toxick

No, it would be a completely different dynamic. Being that all the bars and restaurants were generally the same, you had an even playing field.

My bet is that if there were a SINGLE smoking alternative, ALL the smokers would flock there like the seagulls around Boardwalk Fries.





My guess is that the place would become so freaking popular, so freaking fast, that an interesting phenomenon would occur: Non-smokers would want to start going there because it's the new super-trendy-way-cool-new-awesome-hot-spot. But then they'd immediately start #####ing about all the smoke again, as is their wont, and the smoking would quickly be snuffed out there, eliminating the entire reason it became popular in the first place, and then the joint would wither on the vine.

[Fugazi]

communism lives on in the U S of A

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Next I think I'll have a non-alcoholic bar or a foodless restaurant, then I can really rake in the dough!

You might have something there.

Not with the foodless restaurant - but a non-alcoholic bar could probably rack in some dough. Target Demographic: Teenagers/Young Adults.




It could be a safe nightclub for kids, where they could have their box socials or whatever the devil kids are into these days.


Nah - screw it. They'd want to smoke, and that would screw it all up.


Little bastards ruin everything.