The latest negotiations in Albany have focused on a plan to allow to-go drinks for three years, but only when customers also order food. Restaurants would also be prohibited from selling full bottles, which liquor stores had flagged as a major concern.
Sign in a restaurant advertising "cocktails to go" as businesses try to adapt during the coronavirus pandemic in Lower Manhattan.Sign in a restaurant advertising "cocktails to go" as businesses try to adapt during the coronavirus pandemic in Lower Manhattan.Restaurants are on the verge of regaining the right to serve cocktails and other alcoholic beverages with to-go orders in New York, at least for the next few years.
“It would be for several years, but not permanent,” he said. “I don’t believe anyone is talking about making it permanent.” Hochul was their biggest ally, including a measure to permanently legalize to-go drinks in her budget proposal she announced in January. But lawmakers were initially hesitant to back the cause amid pushback from the liquor-store lobby who feared it would encroach on their business, as well as some officials who raised concern about open containers and drunk driving.in their separate budget proposals last month.
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