Jump to full article: Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal, 2008-04-06
Author: RAY HAGAR • rhagar
Intro: Paul Sonner, owner of the Bully's Sports Bar & Grill locations in Northern Nevada, saw that the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act was hurting his business.
The law, approved by Nevada voters in the 2006 general election, banned smoking in most indoor public places except for casino floors and bars that did not serve food.
The law hurt Bully's and many similar businesses, Sonner said. If bars or taverns served food, they could not allow smoking.
So, smoking customers no longer patronized their businesses to have a beer, cigarette and perhaps a hamburger while playing the poker machines and watching sports on a big-screen TV.
"There are a lot of people who went out of business," Sonner said. . . .
Sonner, meanwhile, has come up with a unique -- yet expensive -- way to obey the law and get around it at the same time.
Sonner opened three "Smokin' Bully's" locations near his establishments.
So now, if his customers want to eat, drink and smoke, they can order food in the established Bully's, and the food will be served to them in the Smokin' Bully's in take-out containers.
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