Online Reservation System — Beta Testers Needed
NH Dining Guide is looking for a few restaurants or venues to participate in the beta launch of our reservation system. If you are interested contact us using the form here or via e-mail at contactus@nhdiningguide.com.
2007 Restaurant Industry Forecast
New Hampshire Economic Brochure (PDF)
The National Restaurant Association released its 2007 Restaurant Industry Forecast and unveiled its public policy agenda for the coming year at a press conference on Dec. 12, 2006. The annual Forecast provides an in-depth analysis of the industry’s economic outlook for the coming year and discusses operator, consumer and menu trends.
Buy the PDF & the print version of the 2007 Forecast
Read the NRA news releases:
N.H. prohibits smoking in bars and restaurants
By Associated Press | June 20, 2007
Governor John Lynch signed a law yesterday banning smoking in New Hampshire's bars and restaurants.
"The science is clear -- secondhand smoke poses a dangerous health
risk, and that is why this new law is so important," Lynch said.
More than a dozen states and hundreds of cities and counties around
the country ban smoking in restaurants, bars, or both. New Hampshire
was the only state in New England that did neither.
The law will take effect in 90 days.
Supporters said the ban was needed to protect workers and customers from the health risks of secondhand smoke.
"Smoking is banned in almost every other workplace in New
Hampshire," Lynch said. "We should not continue to subject our
hard-working citizens in the restaurant industry to the harmful dangers
of secondhand smoke."
Opponents argued for education instead. They said restaurant and bar
owners should decide when or whether to ban smoking, not the state.
They tried unsuccessfully to carve out an exception for "fully
enclosed" smoking rooms in some businesses. The rooms would have been
required to have separate ventilation systems, and employees would have
been able to choose whether to enter them.
But ban supporters said allowing smoking rooms would make it
difficult for workers to say no to their employers. They said the rooms
would be bad for smokers and their children and for anyone seated near
their doors.
Social, fraternal, and religious organizations and their private
events are exempt from the ban. Smoking is permitted at the
organizations' public events, such as bingo nights, only if smoking
areas can be segregated effectively.
New Hampshire already bans smoking in public buildings, offices, and
workplaces, except in smoking areas that are effectively segregated.
Smoking also is banned in schools, child-care agencies, hospitals,
grocery stores, elevators, buses, and tramways.
