[Beck_isright]

The lawsuits are starting up here in Florida too. One bar down in Miami got clever. The law states that "10% of gross food sales or less" would be the standard for granting a waiver. So this one bar in Miami is only serving food during football season and launching MASSIVE happy hours this summer to make sure 91% of his sales are in booze this year. This law is so moronic, it's pathetic.

[Labyrinthos]

The lawsuits are starting up here in Florida too. One bar down in Miami got clever. The law states that "10% of gross food sales or less" would be the standard for granting a waiver.

The county where I live has a similar exemption. The law is unconstitutionally vague, however, because it doesn't define the time period over which the pub or restaurant is supposed to measure the ratio between food and alcohol sales. The place where I hang out has taken the position that the sales percentages should be measured in 30 second cyles throughout the day. Another place takes the position that the calculation is for the previous 200 years (the tavern is one of those places where George Washington supposedly slept).

[qam1]

One bar down in Miami got clever. The law states that "10% of gross food sales or less" would be the standard for granting a waiver.

Couldn't a restaurant to get around the ban do something like sell a beer for say $30 but with that beer comes a free steak dinner so technically 100% of their sales will be from alcohol

[Mears]

As a long time smoker,I agree with you. These laws are pathetic.

The restaurant owner you mentioned will encourage people to drink,rather than eat,just because of a dumb law.

Get rid of one minor problem and create a far worse one.