Lighting up outside your favorite restaurant in Winter Park may not be possible anymore as more restaurants are becoming entirely smoke free.
Thirty-two restaurants in the city have joined a movement called “Breathe Free Winter Park.”
Eight of those businesses are on Park Avenue.
"It’s definitely been a good business booster," said Beverly Thomas, with Winter Park Outback Steakhouse. "We have signs out everywhere and there’s been more positive than negative. It was worth the change."
Eateries like Outback Steakhouse, Bosphorous, The Ravenous Pig, and Umi are not allowing people to smoke in their outdoor seating areas.
"We had customers that were smoking out here and anytime we had servers bring food out we would have smoke coming inside," said Richard Luciano with Umi Guest Relations.
The Executive Director for Healthy Central Florida, Jill Hamilton Buss, said the group will help restaurants make the transition. A toolkit, signage and even staff training is provided.
"When one goes smoke free it encourages the other one to go smoke free," she said.
However, going entirely smoke free isn’t going to please everyone.
"Now I can’t even smoke while I’m eating a casual meal," said Emily Sujka of Winter Park. "When I’m already outside so I could see people resenting it a bit."