Amid concerns from the liquor store lobby, New York lawmakers are pushing back against Governor Hochul’s plan to allow restaurants and bars to serve cocktails with takeout and delivery orders.
A bartender sells a to-go frozen margarita to a customer in Bushwick, Brooklyn in April 2020.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images
Neither of the legislative budget plans included what Hochul recently called “the most popular item in budget”: A measure that“The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to allow on-premises establishments to sell wine or liquor drinks for take-out or delivery,” theThe concept of allowing cocktails with to-go sales has been a point of contention in Albany since June 2021, when the state put an end to a temporary, 15-month period in which bars and restaurants were allowed to offer...
Both the New York State Liquor Store Association and the Metropolitan Package Store Association have been active in lobbying against Hochul’s proposals. They’ve had success when they’ve teamed up in the past, banding together to help block plans to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Mike Whyland, a spokesperson for Assembly Democrats, said the conference took Hochul’s proposal out of their budget plan because it dealt with a policy issue. Lawmakers have long groused about governors including extensive policy proposals in their budget plans, even if they have little or nothing to do with the state’s finances.
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