2.07.2007
No more porn in the morn.
Doug Moe: Say goodbye to Smut & Eggs:
According to Bennett, the cause of his bar's demise is simple: The smoking ban in taverns did him in.
"I was doing fine," Bennett said. "It just killed me."
The decline started slowly, Bennett said, because the ban was enacted in the summer of 2005. His smoking customers had no problem ducking outside in July to grab a smoke. By December, they were less enthusiastic. Today, 19 months into the ban, his business is just about gone.
"There are nights when I will have one customer," Bennett said. "Those same nights, in the past, I needed two bartenders."
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There are people in Madison who will not be sorry to see a working-class tavern with unusual weekend television offerings go away. Bennett thinks it's symptomatic of a kind of elitism in the city. It can be hard to be a shot and a beer guy in a wine and cheese town. But when the former are gone, Bennett said, they'll leave a hole.
"You're losing the guys with personality and humor," Bennett said. "You go downtown to those fern bars and the bartenders charge you $5 for a drink and walk away."
This begs the question - I wonder if Ian's will take over the place.
January also is when officials at Ian’s Pizza hope to open expanded quarters for their location at 115 State St. Construction is ongoing at the storefront to the east, which was left empty last summer when the adult bookstore State Street Arcade closed its doors.
“We decided to expand because of seating issues,” says Ian’s general manager Clayton Scherer. “We’re also moving our delivery operations up there.” Currently delivery service operates from the other Ian’s location at 319 N. Frances St.
The expansion is newsworthy, of course, but what about the truly burning question: Did Ian’s employees turn up some interesting stuff at the vacated pornography shop? “We did find numerous videos,” allows Scherer. “Other than that, there was the expected, I guess you could say. We’ll just leave it at that.”
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