No, that’s not advice from your dietitian; it’s a mandate from one city’s liquor board. “Gardel’s class ‘B’ liquor license requires that the eatery serves food to the public, said Samuel T. Daniels Jr., chief inspector and acting executive secretary of Baltimore’s liquor board. But on a visit in February, Daniels found that the majority of tables had been removed to provide dance space and ‘no food that could even accomplish a dish listed on the menu,’ was found in the kitchen.” Read the Baltimore Business Journal‘s story here.
A food-to-drink sales requirement is not an uncommon feature of liquor laws. It is somewhat unusual to see a ratio requirement enforced by police officers on a nightly basis, though. Usually a government finance department will audit the business’s sales over an objective period of months. After all, some nights you just can’t sell a lot of food.
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