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Ontario’s hard-hit hospitality industry is urging the province to give licensed bars and restaurants a reduced price on alcohol.
A new change.org petition started by David Ouellette, beverage director at the highly anticipated Vela (by Amanda Bradley of Alo and Robin Goodfellow of Bar Raval), opening this spring, asks for an immediate 25% reduction in the LCBO markup on alcohol sales to bar and restaurant licensees.
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Ouellette is one of several people in the business calling out for lowered alcohol prices.
What’s really needed is wholesale pricing, but that, said Ouellette in a statement, will take too long. The25% reduction is a more realistic goal and will give fast relief to the sector.
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John Sinopoli, co-owner of Ascari Hospitality Group and co-founder of SaveHospitality.ca a grassroots coalition of Canadian restaurant and hospitality businesses wrote about this issue last month in the
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The upcoming Ontario budget expected in March, he said, “presents an opportunity for a regulatory change that is completely in line with the platform that Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative government campaigned on, i.e. reducing taxes for small business, modernizing the LCBO, and the sale of alcohol in Ontario.”
Sinopoli acknowledged that Ford’s government has already made an important change by allowing restaurants to sell alcohol with take-out.
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