Businesses can now begin serving alcohol at 8 a.m. instead of 10 a.m., and liquor stores can open at 10 a.m. on Sundays.
Anchorage Assembly vice chair Meg Zaletel speaks during the assembly meeting on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.
The change applies to hospitality businesses with a license to serve beer, wine and liquor and that also serve food. It doesn’t apply to bars and nightclubs. Breweries, wineries and distilleries can’t open for alcohol service before 9 a.m. according to state law., approved in a 10-1 vote, also allows retail businesses licensed to sell alcohol, such as liquor stores, to open at 10 a.m. Sundays instead of noon.
Constant said he sees no rational basis for restricting Sunday retail alcohol sales until after noon while all other days sales can begin at 10 a.m.“There’s been many a time where I’m going and getting food for dinner that I’m preparing Sunday evening, and I have to make a separate run back for the bottle of wine,” she said.
“Offering alcohol sales at 8 a.m. is just a matter of convenience,” said Laile Fairbairn, who co-owns four Anchorage restaurants: Crush Bistro, Snow City Café, Spenard Roadhouse and South Restaurant and Coffeehouse. Meanwhile, alcohol is becoming less popular as more states legalize cannabis, and many businesses are offering mocktails and low-alcohol drinks, she said.
“By extending these hours of operations, bars and restaurants can be open and available to people who worked nontraditional hours, like many people in the service industry and third-shift workers,” Ostrander added.
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