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By John Cropley/Business Editor |
June 26, 2021
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ALBANY Restaurants and taverns are expanding their seating and their hours as pandemic restrictions continue to ease, but many New Yorkers are continuing to drink at home.
Sales at beer and wine and liquor stores across New York jumped during the first year of the pandemic and plummeted by even greater percentages at sit-down establishments. The two may be balancing each other out: Industry figures show only small changes in overall sales from year to year.
Several local alcohol retailers told The Gazette this past week that their sales have remained strong even as the COVID-19 crisis that fueled their sales boom subsided.
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG) – New York lawmakers will likely not extend alcohol to go at restaurants and bars, as part of their actions on the final day of the legislative session. Restaurant and tavern owners, who are still struggling financially, expressed their disappointment.
Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed restaurants and bars to offer alcoholic beverages to go along with food orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has extended that executive order several times.
Scott Wexler, with the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association, speaks in favor of extending alcohol-to-go, outside the state Capitol on June 10, 2021 . Photo by Karen Dewitt
Restaurants and tavern owners, who gathered outside the Capitol for some last minute lobbying, say it’s been a lifeline and allowed them to increase sales and add staff as they struggle to come back from pandemic shutdowns. Melissa Fleischut is President of the New York State Restaurant Association.
New York’s legislative session is drawing to a close, but without the usual frenzy of hallways crowded with lobbyists and protesters and few last minute