Marco Mayeux, 42, the bartender of Le Relais, a Paris cafe in the 18th Arrondissement, said the ban alone had cut his coffee and bar business by 20 percent. "A place like mine doesn't appeal to everyone; it's very working-stiff," he said. "There is a coffee-at-the-counter feel that isn't attractive anymore." Before, clients would go inside a cafe, have a coffee, a cigarette and another coffee. But now they go out to smoke, and sometimes they do not come back, many cafe owners said. Gérard Renaud, 57, owner of the Restaurant de L'Église in Marsannay-la-Côte, said that business was down at least 30 percent. "Now people don't eat," he said. "They come in for a coffee or a little aperitif and that is it. We are used to being busy, but now we feel lazy, and it is depressing." Ms. Guérin is trying to sell her cafe, but has had only one nibble in this lovely town of some 3,000 people, much visited by tourists, where the renowned hotel-restaurant Relais Bernard Loiseau is just down the street.
"A place like mine doesn't appeal to everyone; it's very working-stiff," he said. "There is a coffee-at-the-counter feel that isn't attractive anymore."
Before, clients would go inside a cafe, have a coffee, a cigarette and another coffee. But now they go out to smoke, and sometimes they do not come back, many cafe owners said.
Gérard Renaud, 57, owner of the Restaurant de L'Église in Marsannay-la-Côte, said that business was down at least 30 percent. "Now people don't eat," he said. "They come in for a coffee or a little aperitif and that is it. We are used to being busy, but now we feel lazy, and it is depressing."
Ms. Guérin is trying to sell her cafe, but has had only one nibble in this lovely town of some 3,000 people, much visited by tourists, where the renowned hotel-restaurant Relais Bernard Loiseau is just down the street.
