john250
Well-known member
To start, you can only buy cold beer in a liquor store; and no sales on Sunday. Restaurants got to sell drinks on Sunday a few years ago, because visiting businessmen and tourists are lost souls who will spend more money here if they can drink.
So, a convenience store operator (or his lawyer) figured out that if you qualify as a restaurant you can sell cold beer on Sunday, for carryout. 26 seats. $200 K in food sales. The liquor store lobby is having a fit. The liquor stores are a powerfull lobby. They are on a first name basis with every legislator, because they see him/her every Friday night. It has gotten crazy. Drunk drivers are going to be rampant, and kids who hang around convenience stores will be corupted. All because cold beer can be sold. Most every convenience store in Indiana sells warm beer and ice. That's a 5 min transformation. I'm going to run for the legislature, so lobbyists will buy me drinks and shrimp coctails at St. Elmo's.
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So, a convenience store operator (or his lawyer) figured out that if you qualify as a restaurant you can sell cold beer on Sunday, for carryout. 26 seats. $200 K in food sales. The liquor store lobby is having a fit. The liquor stores are a powerfull lobby. They are on a first name basis with every legislator, because they see him/her every Friday night. It has gotten crazy. Drunk drivers are going to be rampant, and kids who hang around convenience stores will be corupted. All because cold beer can be sold. Most every convenience store in Indiana sells warm beer and ice. That's a 5 min transformation. I'm going to run for the legislature, so lobbyists will buy me drinks and shrimp coctails at St. Elmo's.
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