On Oct 28, 2005, at 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting anecdote....but how do you honestly expect to refute
the stone cold facts that it was the smoking ban which forced Cafe
Di Napoli and the Olive Garden to close shop in downtown Mpls?
What's your evidence here?
Have Cafe di Napoli's owners blamed the smoking ban? That place was
trending down for years.
As for Olive Garden, the owners said it did a strong lunch biz but
couldn't attract folks for dinner. That, in my humble opinion,
doesn't indict the smoking ban — it says Olive Garden corporate
misread the Downtown market, in which chains do great for lunch but
bad at dinner, when folks have more time, can wander further and
thuse have more choice.
I worked in the restaurant biz for 14 years, and i can tell you
capitalism's creative destruction is never more apparent than with
eateries — before, during and (perhaps) after the ban. While I don't
doubt some places have/will succumbed to the ban, I think opponents
should provide clearer and more convincing evidence to make the case
that the ban was the specific cause.
David Brauer
Kingfield
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