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Restaurants can now sell beer, wine and cocktails to-go during shelter-in-place, but will that help keep them around?
Title (Dublin Core)
Restaurants can now sell beer, wine and cocktails to-go during shelter-in-place, but will that help keep them around?
Description (Dublin Core)
Amidst California's shelter-in-place orders, San Francisco Bay Area restaurants struggled to stay in business. One week into the shelter-in-place, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) relaxed regulations and announced that restaurants and bars, with adequate licensing, could sell alcohol through delivery and take-out measures in an attempt to prevent permanent restaurant and bar closures. The guidelines stated that alcohol must either come prepackaged (i.e. in a can or bottle) or must accompany food if the drink is prepared on site. Patrons were directed to transport the alcohol in their trunks and were to consume on private property. For some restaurants and bars, the new regulations led to a recovery of approximately 50% of typical alcohol sales. For others, the regulations have provided little relief. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the San Francisco Bay Area restaurant and bar industry has yet to be fully realized.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 23, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Amalya Dubrovsky
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Shanna Gagnon
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Berkeleyside
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Food & Drink
English
Government State
English
Business & Industry
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
#sanfranciscobayarea
California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
delivery
takeout
alcohol
#whatsfordinner
Collection (Dublin Core)
San Francisco Bay Area
Foodways
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/29/2020
08/02/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/10/2020
06/23/2020
This item was submitted on May 29, 2020 by Shanna Gagnon using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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