Glantz says California tax revenues show a 5.9 percent increase in sales at restaurants with beer and wine licenses and a 5.1 percent increase in sales at restaurants with full alcohol service and bars that don't serve food. Glantz also looked at bars and restaurants in 89 cities and six states with anti-smoking laws and says he found none that were harmed by the ban. However, bar owners say sales may be up only because some bars break the law. While one statewide survey in California showed nearly all restaurants and more than two-thirds of all bars were observing the smoking ban, a county survey in San Francisco showed only half of the city's bars were enforcing the new law. Harrington says she will continue to fight the ban.
Hospitality is, after all, about people having fun.
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