“This is transformative for an industry that was literally brought to its knees during the pandemic,” Governor Hochul said at a wine bar in Bed-Stuy, promoting plans for to-go cocktails and to tackle a backlog of liquor license applications.
It was 10 a.m. in a Bed-Stuy wine bar. When you’re the governor of New York, sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
She stood at a rostrum in front of wine coolers shielded by chrome gates, ticking off her proposal toas well as a separate proposal to spend $2 million to hire 39 workers at the State Liquor Authority. Of those, 30 would be tasked with tackling a backlog of 3,700 pending applications for liquor licenses and events. That backlog has led to processing delays, drawing the ire of the bar and restaurant industry.
But while bar and restaurant owners are on board with Hochul’s plans to help their industry, her push to permanently allow restaurants to sell cocktails and similar alcoholic beverages with to-go orders hasThe Metro Package Store Association and the New York State Liquor Store Association, two of the lobbying organizations representing liquor stores at the Capitol, have raised numerous concerns about the measure and the effect it could have on their heavily regulated industry.
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