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Senate committee advances temporary reduction in mixed-beverage food-to-alcohol ratio after hours of testimony
Summary
Senate Bill 1163, which would lower Virginia’s mixed‑beverage food‑to‑alcohol ratio to 30% under a two‑year pilot, was advanced by the Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee on a 14‑1 vote.
Senate Bill 1163, which would lower Virginia’s mixed-beverage food-to-alcohol ratio to 30% for a two-year pilot and require a post‑pilot report to the General Assembly, was advanced by the Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee on a 14-1 vote.
The bill’s patron, Senator McDougall, told the committee the change responds to a shift in consumers toward higher-priced distilled‑spirit cocktails and to pricing changes since the ratio was last set. “We are trying to deal with the fact that pricing has changed, not only in the industry, but the Commonwealth,” McDougall said during his presentation.
The bill would codify several regulatory practices in statute, require restaurants to have at least as many table seats as counter seats, reduce the ratio to 30% for establishments that meet a monthly minimum of $4,000 in…
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