Looks like Indiana is getting happy hour back.
Article says senators tried to kill carry out drink options.
Indiana allowed carry out drinks during COVID to help businesses during lockdown.
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Did you experience, or come across data that supports the claim that carry out will lead to increasing drunk driving?
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How do you feel about carry out?
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How do you feel about happy hour offerings and encouragement of more or just cheaper alcohol consumption?
Disclaimers: 1: I’m not from Indiana, I live one state down. 2: I don’t have stats on hand, this is pretty much entirely anecdotal.
Banning carryout sales from restaurants is silly and ineffective. If someone wants single serve alcohol there are plenty of opportunities for it with or without restaurant carryout. I worked in a drive thru package sales store for a couple of years and sold plenty of single serve bottles of beer, premixed drinks, and liquor. We kept a nice selection of all of those in the big cooler so that we could sell it cold. Gas stations do the same thing with a smaller selection. All banning restaurant carryout drinks does is make it mildly more inconvenient and cost restaurants some revenue.
Restaurant drinks are expensive. Happy hour makes them a bit cheaper but still significantly more expensive than packaged sales. Happy hour may contribute to the problem for social alcoholics but it’s far from the cheapest or most dangerous form of social drinking. Restaurant drinking has a safety net because restaurants that serve alcohol have a legal responsibility to limit the amount that their patrons consume and police regularly sit outside looking for drunk drivers. Focusing on happy hour at the legislative level is picking the low hanging fruit and isn’t going to achieve much more than hurting restaurants.
Yeah, I don’t really want to believe it amounts to much of a difference. I feel like there’s way more responsible people than not. Those who are offenders seem to do so anyway.
Imported a long LLM response. It seems to think there was an increase during the last allowance, but I am more inclined to believe this was genuinely related to the pandemic. Maybe this time, we can get cleaner statistics and see how things go for a couple years.
Edit, I like to think I am one of those responsible ones. We walk down a pedestrian trail to the food area,.and it would be nice to take a drink to go while walking back.
I also take drinks in my car from the house, I just don’t drink them until I get somewhere. And not drinking anytime soon, duh. 😀