Irish Liquor Lawyer to talk cocktails-to-go on WGN
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.
Please support the Illinois Restaurant Act
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 […]
Cocktails-to-go in Illinois set to expire June 2nd, contact your state rep to extend this right
Please contact your state representative and ask them to support cocktails-to-go.
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 […]
Chicago to allow regular liquor license hours and increased capacity limits
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 to speak on fulfillment house issues on Avalara Webinar
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?
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
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 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 […]
Tennessee, we have a constitutional problem
Tennessee, we have a constitutional problem
Tennessee HB 0742 and SB 0705 represented an ill-fated attempt to ban fulfillment houses from shipping wine to Tennessee residents. Based on a groundswell of opposition and the legislative sponsor actually gaining an education on wine shipping, the fulfillment house ban provision was taken out of […]
Congrats to Julia Momose the Best Hospitality Industry Advocate in Illinois
Congrats to Julia Momose for being named the Best Industry Advocate with her work with Cocktails for Hope.
I am glad to be associated with her and being mentioned in this article with her and our great partner Ian Beacraft.
We have a great leader and look forward to making cocktails-to-go permanent