Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gossip / Food & Life Another puritanical crackdown?
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I've heard rumors that the City of Atlanta is enforcing laws that prohibit restaurant sales of half-price bottles of wine. At least one restaurant has been fined a hefty fee.
The half-price special is a common incentive restaurants offer to increase trade on slow nights, typically Mondays and Tuesdays.
I've been unable to confirm this, although it comes from a very reliable source.
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Cliff, I've also been rumors that since Georgia doesn't allow Happy Hours--nine years of residency and I just discovered that--it also doesn't allow drink specials. F'r example, I went to a favorite watering hole that has $3 pints on Tuesdays, only to be told that the owner had been fined and reprimanded for doing such things. So does that mean things like $1.50 Jager shots or half-price margaritas and such like are against the law too? Suddenly, I'm quite glad that I'm moving away next year. Yeesh.
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Since they can't catch the "Blue Jean Bandits" I'm assuming they had to go after public enemy #2... The city is still crooked.
I was told by my local watering hole (Johnny's Pizza - o4w) that the issue isn't just half price wine, but nightly specials. According to the rule, a bar/restaurant/lounge can't offer differing nightly specials. For example, Tuesday night beer specials and Thursday night wine specials. The b/r/l has to either offer the same special every night or no special at all. At Johnny's, they used to have $1 beer on Fridays (with purchase of special mug); now it is $1 beer every night, but price of the mug doubled. And, the differing nightly specials stopped. So a b/r/l has to choose just a few specials it can afford and offer them nightly. No b/r/l could live on half price wine every night, so that special is effectively no longer offered.
Aaron just said exactly what I was trying to say, only, y'know, more coherent. Gah, that is so stupid. It's not enough that as adults and taxpayers we aren't allowed to purchase alcohol on Sunday, but not to be able to have a choice of a drink special at b/r/l? Ridiculous.
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