A PIZZA restaurant company with 350 branches across Britain has become the first popular chain to impose a ban on smoking on its premises.
Pizza Hut, part-owned by Whitbread, is taking the step “to protect both our customers and staff from the dangers of passive smoking at a time when four fifths of UK citizens support smoke-free provision in public places”.
Brian Rimmer, operations director of full service restaurants for Pizza Hut, said yesterday: “Pizza Hut strongly believes that families should be able to take time to have a leisurely meal in a restaurant without exposing their children to other people’s smoke. It is equally important that our staff can work in a smoke-free environment.”
Pizza Hut is the first to react after the publication