Fire inspires restaurant chain to make changes

The day after Memorial Day was pretty normal at Duffy’s Sports Grill on Dale Mabry in Tampa, in the Walter’s Crossing shopping center. The bar was pretty full, as it usually is. Diners packed the tables and TVs were on. A lot of TVs.

But that evening someone out for a meal, or possibly a drink, casually tossed a cigarette before going through the front doors and into the sports bar. There was a receptacle there for those waiting for a table or employees on break sneaking a smoke to dispose of their butts.