SC - Passage East III - Part 1

Thu Nov 23 13:18:44 PST 2000

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In a message dated 11/23/00 1:45:37 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

> I'm not sure where the 
> legal line is drawn between restuarant and bar. 

In Arizona, which generally goes by the routine fed regs, the line is drawn 
by what percentage of the gross profits are made off alcohol or off food. If 
the higher percentage is made off food, it is classed a restaurant. 
Consequently, quite a few bar-with-sandwiches establishments have stopped 
serving food altogether, including some comedy clubs; so as not to drive off 
their drinking and smoking clientele. The only loophole discovered by this 
law was that if you were a **private** club with paid membership, you could 
still have food, smokes and alcohol in the same area. That has lead to many 
coffee/food shops requiring a patron to **join** the club by paying a dollar 
a year to be a member. That way they get to serve food, coffee, and alcohol 
and not be harrassed.

I'm not sure what the restrictions are like elsewhere, but I did live in PA 
for a while and remember they had some severe codes in my little Scranton 
village offshoot locale.

Lars

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<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 11/23/00 1:45:37 AM US Mountain Standard Time, stefan at texas.net writes:
 
 
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 In Arizona, which generally goes by the routine fed regs, the line is drawn by what percentage of the gross profits are made off alcohol or off food. If the higher percentage is made off food, it is classed a restaurant. Consequently, quite a few bar-with-sandwiches establishments have stopped serving food altogether, including some comedy clubs; so as not to drive off their drinking and smoking clientele. The only loophole discovered by this law was that if you were a **private** club with paid membership, you could still have food, smokes and alcohol in the same area. That has lead to many coffee/food shops requiring a patron to **join** the club by paying a dollar a year to be a member. That way they get to serve food, coffee, and alcohol and not be harrassed.
 
 I'm not sure what the restrictions are like elsewhere, but I did live in PA for a while and remember they had some severe codes in my little Scranton village offshoot locale.
 
 Lars</HTML>

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