Boycott "Margaritas Management Group" Restaurants?

[Lloyd Danforth]

It's a private company.

Owners, then

[Russell Kanning]

I can easily boycott Margaritas in Keene.
Armadillos carries our papers.
They are not the same kind of restaurants, but it will do the trick. You can see one from the other .... across the street.
Armadillos has a college hangout atmosphere and has little tables with stools.

[d_goddard]

Armadillos has a college hangout atmosphere and has little tables with stools.

Hey that actually sounds pretty cool.... wish I lived closer to Keene... and had truckloads of free time to hangout in bars, like when I was in College!

[Dave Ridley]

Lloyd wrote:

<<I say boycott them, let the stockholders and board know why and continue as long as he is still manager.>>

Well that's what you can do if you wish but to me that is sort of attacking a person when, again, the most effective freedom lover only attacks deeds and systems.

[Dave Ridley]

Just got a nice note back from Mr. Joyce, more on that later.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Lloyd wrote:

<<I say boycott them, let the stockholders and board know why and continue as long as he is still manager.>>

Well that's what you can do if you wish but to me that is sort of attacking a person when, again, the most effective freedom lover only attacks deeds and systems.

Deeds don't exist outside of people


However, I don't really care if we go after this guy or his company.

[Incrementalist]

These people aren't bad, but Mr. Joyce is severely misguided.  Any boycott should be positive in nature, and not nasty.  It should end as soon as they ban smoking on their own.

If I'm not mistaken the Margaritas chain already bans smoking on their own.

[Nash]

I like Margaritas.  Why do people want to boycott them?

[KBCraig]

These people aren't bad, but Mr. Joyce is severely misguided.  Any boycott should be positive in nature, and not nasty.  It should end as soon as they ban smoking on their own.

If I'm not mistaken the Margaritas chain already bans smoking on their own.

Not according to every news article about it.

The owner is pushing for a state ban, because he's afraid to do it on his own.

[KBCraig]

I like Margaritas.  Why do people want to boycott them?

Because they want the state to ban smoking at their competitors' restaurants.

[Nash]

Smoking is a vice of the addicted and the uneducated.  As society makes it more and more out of "style" to be a smoker, then people will naturally move away from it.  It will be (and is) a generational issue that will change as the generations change.  Remember the old movies when pretty sexy women would provocatively take a drag on their cigs?  And the macho-man Marlboro man riding his horse.  It's that between-the-lines sexual inuendo that was attractive.

I say smoking will take care of itself.  People will stop when they've decided to or when they've decided to get help (if addicted).  Some may need to wait for some type of life event like seeing a loved one suffer through a lung cancer death.  Others will stop when they see that it's not cool anymore--which is the opposite reason they started in the first place--to be cool.

Let the restaurants ban smoking on their own without any new laws.  People will vote with their feet.

[Lloyd Danforth]

yes

[dawn]

Isn't Keene already smoke free? So boycotting the Keene Margarita's is not nearly effective as the others, IMHO. But I'm still going to do it - I have already been boycotting them since I didn't like the food very much and would prefer to spend my time money somewhere I really enjoy.

[Incrementalist]

These people aren't bad, but Mr. Joyce is severely misguided.  Any boycott should be positive in nature, and not nasty.  It should end as soon as they ban smoking on their own.

If I'm not mistaken the Margaritas chain already bans smoking on their own.

Not according to every news article about it.

The owner is pushing for a state ban, because he's afraid to do it on his own.

Perhaps it's just the Keene branch.  I was in that part of the state touring with one of my 04 candidates and we ate at Margaritas, which didn't allow smoking.  Though doesn't Keene itself have a smoking ban?  That might be it.

[Incrementalist]

Let the restaurants ban smoking on their own without any new laws.  People will vote with their feet.

Just so everybody knows, the pro-smoking-ban position is that second hand smoke affects the workers.  That's the question at the center of the public discourse on this issue.