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Minnesota regulators notified three more restaurants Saturday of plans to suspend their liquor licenses for bucking Gov. Tim Walz s COVID-19 order to close.
The Interchange in Albert Lea, Cornerstone in Monticello and the Pour House in Clarks Grove now face 60-day suspensions pending a hearing before an administrative judge. They join four other establishments Boardwalk Bar and Grill in East Grand Forks, Alibi Drinkery in Lakeville, Mission Tavern in Merrifield and Neighbors on the Rum in Princeton facing similar suspensions for violating Walz s executive order.
Violators could face a five-year liquor license suspension by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety s Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division.
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The latest executive order issued by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Wednesday the order that keeps in-person dining on pause at bars and restaurants across the state through the holidays hasn t been very popular, understandably, with Minnesota s hospitality industry.
But the state isn t showing any signs of letting businesses who wilfully violate that order get away with it. You might have seen that list of businesses who said Wednesday that they were going to open up anyway. Well, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison s office noticed and is moving forward and taking action against two bars who opened their business in defiance of the latest state order.
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