I am scheduled to be at Channel 5 news at 4:30 and 6:00 discussing cocktails-to-go and how we need to extend the law to allow cocktails-to-go in Illinois.
Tune in and more importantly contact your legislators and tell them to support cocktails-to-go. If the extension is not signed into law by June 2nd. Bars and restaurants […]
I was once a radical and then the world changed
During March 2020, I got a call from Julia Momose, one of the preeminent mixologists in America and the owner of Kumiko, a place famous for world renowned cocktails. Like many restaurants she was hit out of the blue by COVID. She wanted to […]
I will be speaking at 3:35pm on WGN AM 720 about cocktails-to-go today, we need to get SB104 passed into law to extend cocktails-to-go.
ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ACT-HB 2557
This bill creates the Illinois Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a fund in the amount of $20,000,000. This fund will award restaurant revitalization grants to struggling businesses. These include businesses that have not received PPP funding from the federal government and are not publicly traded companies. The money will be used to rehire and […]
Illinois’ cocktails-to-go law is set to expire June 2, 2021. Fortunately, SB104 would extend cocktails-to-go until December 31, 2023.
However, SB104 has not passed the legislature, and if it fails to become law, bars and restaurants lose their privilege to sell cocktails-to-go.
Many bars and restaurants survival depends […]
The City of Chicago announced that starting tomorrow restaurants and bars can operate at 75% occupancy. Six feet social distancing must be maintained.
Licensees in Chicago can operate within their regular liquor license hours.
Table/party sizes can be increased 10 per table.
Seating at bar/counters is limited to 6 per party indoors and outdoors
Standing areas may be opened […]
Irish Liquor Lawyer will be speaking on fulfillment house issues and cocktails-to-go on an Avalara webinar on Wednesday May 12th.
The webinar will delve into the fulfillment house issues and the controversy surrounding proposed fulfillment house legislation and whether these proposed laws are constitutional.
Further, the webinar will be discussing the trends in cocktails-to-go and how it […]
WILL THE BULLY STATE PREVAIL OVER THE CONSTITUTION?
Recently, several states introduced legislation requiring out-of-state fulfillment houses to obtain a license in their state, even though a fulfillment house does not generally perform business activity in the state. In Alabama and Kansas, bills requiring out-of-state fulfillment house become licensed passed both houses, […]
NO THANK YOU WEST VIRGINIA
There is a trend occurring in the liquor world, where states introduce legislation that looks like states are opening up markets and expanding consumer access to products, but when the layers of the opinion become peeled away, the legislation fails to serve its purpose.
Recently, a bill (HB 2025) was […]
Kansas closes in on the Constitutional abyss
Kansas became the latest state to engage in the most recent ugly trend in the liquor world, introducing laws […]