Eat Streat business owners are to meet with Rotorua Lakes Council and Toi Te Ora Public Health staff in preparation for phase two of the city's extended smokefree outdoor spaces policy.
The phase two rollout begins in January and sees the introduction of the smokefree outdoor spaces policy at outdoor pavement eating places, Eat Streat, markets held in the inner city and entrances and exits to public buildings and facilities used by the public.
Eat Streat's Ambrosia owner Kris Beehre said he was not looking forward to policing the new policy.
He said quite a few smokers still frequented Ambrosia and tended to congregate in one area to smoke, but the premises was big enough that if passive smoke was bothering other patrons, they could move to another area.
The council's extended smokefree policy was approved in 2016 and phase one introduced earlier this year.