Smoking Ban Statewide as of Jan 1 2008

[Ponch]

Nope it won't be good at all.

I just had a talk with my brother who is the night manager at my dad's restaurant. It's located on the western edge of cook county and follow's cook county's ban on smoking. Overall revenue is down since the ban, because the giordano's 10 minutes away is in dupage and they still allow smoking. Many of the regular tables that were smokers stopped showing up. On top of that, smoking table also had higher average checks dollar wise. Smokers tend to be less health consious and that leaded to more liquor and pop sales versus the non smoking tables that only order water.

They are not happy at all. My dad gets bonuses based on profits. So this stupid law is costing him more money, and the city is losing tax revenue as well. I wouldn't be suprised if they raised property tax to compensate for lost revenue from the places that used to allow smoking. Then it becomes a double kick in the nuts. Smaller paycheck, bigger bills! Thanks to all the jagoff politicians for telling us what's right and wrong!

I always fought and defended the smokers, even when I didn't smoke!

OK but now that the ban is statewide....Buisness may level out a bit among the smoking community since now there is no real advantage of going to place a compared to place b anymore because place a (which used to allow smoking where b did not) now is also smoke free....So it all should come down to quality/service.