[absolootezer0]

Even if only 25-30% of your patrons smoke, and you lose 25-30% of your revenue with a smoking ban, that loss has GOT to hurt.

which is why i get afraid when i see so many chain restaurants coming in. we have a strip in west lansing that's chain heaven (at least 10 in less than a mile) and the mom and pop shops are starting to disappear. chains can handle the losses that family owned can't. if too many small restaurants go under, there will be no one left to fight, as chains don't tend to care- the loss of business will only be staggering for a few months, then it will trickle back, people will eventually go back to eating out.

[SheLion]

chains can handle the losses that family owned can't. if too many small restaurants go under, there will be no one left to fight, as chains don't tend to care- the loss of business will only be staggering for a few months, then it will trickle back, people will eventually go back to eating out.

It's like our JC Penny's up here.  Hardly ever a customer.  Unless it's Christmas season.  The business from JC Penny across the United States help to keep open the ones like we have up here.

Trickle back?  People will eventually go back to eating out? heh!  Not ME and not a lot of my friends and family.

Can't smoke, then I will just save my money, thank you.  :)