🚀 go-pugleaf

eleea77@Rosie.UH.EDU wrote:
>
> In article <3s5r5v$gpt@news.cerf.net>, gconway@lainet.com (Gerry Conway) writes:
> >mshaw@netcom.com (mark shaw) wrote:
> >
> >>> This is a Los Angeles based newsgroup..... in LA smoking is prohibited in
> >>> restaurants (and almost everywhere else too.)   Some restaurants will serve
> >>> food in the bar (must be a physically isolated room with independent
> >>> air conditioning system) where smoking is prohibited; but, they cannot legally
> >>> show you a menu.
> >
> >>God, that sucks.  Next thing you know the social engineers will be con-
> >>trolling dress codes....
> >
> >Actually, quite a few first class restaurants have dress codes.
> >
> >As well as some second class ones -- you know, "no shoes, no service?"
> >
> >As for smoking and non-smoking sections, when I travel out of LA I
> >always ask if a restaurant has "breathing" and "non-breathing"
> >sections.
> >
> >Seems more to the point, somehow.
> >
> >G
> 	I have to admit that I literally "breathe a sigh of relief"
> 	whenever I'm in California and realize "I don't have to ask
> 	for a table as far as possible from the smoke!*!*!"  Here in
> 	Houston, some places have a strange idea of how to separate
> 	smoking from non-smoking...one place has split their dining
> 	room in half lengthwise so you are never more than one or
> 	two tables away from the smokers!  The waiter said it was
> 	so everybody could have an equal chance to be next to the
> 	live band.  Personally, I'd rather be able to breathe than
> 	have to shout over C&W to talk to my dinner partner!  Needless
> 	to say, we haven't been back to that spot.>
> 
> 
> 	Bon appetit--and here's wishing you clear air to breathe while
> 	you eat!
> 
> Vickie


Hehe, I always ask for "very non-smoking" and it seems that is as likely as 
not to get me a table immediately next to smoking unless I put up a 
stink equivalent to the smell of burning tobacco.

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