slimvictor
Bluelight Crew
SALT LAKE CITY – Carefully, four men carry two 15-foot-long, 200-pound pieces of frosted glass out to the parking lot, where they carefully heave them to the pavement. As the glass shatters, everyone cheers.
It happened last month outside Vuz Restaurant, where the glass had formed a "Zion Curtain" — a state-required partition between bar and patrons that owner Mohsen Asgari says drove away both customers and bartenders.
Asgari was free to smash his $2,800 partition because he'd obtained a coveted license that allowed him to serve drinks without one. But other new restaurants in the state aren't so lucky.
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•As of Oct. 1, stores no longer can sell the popular mini beer keg known as the "Chubby." Regular kegs already are banned.
•As of next year, even new restaurants licensed to serve nothing stronger than beer — weak 3.2% alcohol beer at that — must keep taps and bartenders out of customers' sight and have beer sales account for no more than 30% of revenue.
•There's a freeze, probably for at least a year, on issuance of the type of alcohol license that allows restaurants to serve liquor, wine and full-strength beer in full view of customers, and that doesn't require customers to order food with a drink.
cont at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-20/utah-alcohol-laws/50482604/1
It happened last month outside Vuz Restaurant, where the glass had formed a "Zion Curtain" — a state-required partition between bar and patrons that owner Mohsen Asgari says drove away both customers and bartenders.
Asgari was free to smash his $2,800 partition because he'd obtained a coveted license that allowed him to serve drinks without one. But other new restaurants in the state aren't so lucky.
(...)
•As of Oct. 1, stores no longer can sell the popular mini beer keg known as the "Chubby." Regular kegs already are banned.
•As of next year, even new restaurants licensed to serve nothing stronger than beer — weak 3.2% alcohol beer at that — must keep taps and bartenders out of customers' sight and have beer sales account for no more than 30% of revenue.
•There's a freeze, probably for at least a year, on issuance of the type of alcohol license that allows restaurants to serve liquor, wine and full-strength beer in full view of customers, and that doesn't require customers to order food with a drink.
cont at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-20/utah-alcohol-laws/50482604/1
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
the movie slc punk explains how bullshit this state is very well.
