Bar and restaurant owners in New York are no longer allowed to serve liquor-to-go, due to the lifting of a state of emergency declaration. The change was made in part due to “v
ehement
opposition from liquor store owners and that industry’s superior lobbying power,” per Vinepair. “With off-premise spirits sales
surging to 30-year highs in 2020, and bars and restaurants enduring their most difficult period in living memory, this has surely been the hardest
concession to swallow.”
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