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Oregon Legislators Pass Bill to Allow To-Go Cocktail Sales from Restaurants
After months of petitions and online campaigns run by industry workers, Oregon lawmakers finally passed a bill allowing bars and restaurants to sell to-go cocktails
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Oregon is one step closer to joining the dozens of other U.S. states that allow restaurants to sell cocktails to-go. The Oregon legislature passed a bill Monday that would allow restaurants and bars to sell cocktails and mixed drinks for takeout or through third-party delivery, after months of campaigns and petitions by restaurant and bar workers.
Senate Bill 1801, introduced as a part of a one-day special session, allows bars and restaurants to sell takeout and delivery cocktails, mixed drinks, and single-serving glasses of wine in sealed containers to consume offsite, as long as the customer purchased those drinks with a food item. Those restaurants can’t sell more than two cocktails per “substantial food item.”
Oregon approves cocktails to-go at last, sending lifeline to struggling restaurants and bars
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Posted Dec 21, 2020
Palomar is a Cuban-inspired bar and restaurant from former U.S. Bartender of the Year Ricky Gomez.Mark Graves
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In the early weeks of the pandemic, Oregon restaurants and bars watched as dozens of states across America rewrote policy or changed laws to allow the sale of cocktails to-go.
Yet even as state-mandated restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 prompted massive layoffs in the food industry, a job sector that employs nearly 10% of the workforce, the state declined to take up the issue.