DUBLIN, Georgia – A year after Georgia forced restaurants to extinguish their smoking sections, the sign outside Chuck and Kay Fordham’s diner defiantly invites customers to “Bring Your Butts On In.”
Inside, ceiling fans stir the smell of frying bacon and hash browns and clouds of blue cigarette smoke as patrons puff away over cups of coffee. Butts pile up in the ashtrays on the tables and lunch counter.
Folks who don’t want a side order of secondhand smoke with their eggs and burgers should probably stay away from the Smoker’s Cafe.
The Fordhams found a way around the smoking ban by exploiting a loophole that was created to exempt bars from the law. Instead of banning cigarettes, the couple banned children from their restaurant.
Smart. Restaurants here need to do that, and not just because they could allow smoking. People should leave their rug rats at home.
My only question about this article is why the hell the prices for food near the end have euro values in parenthesis? Screw the euro, this is America.