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Trustees debate whether gaming revenue should count toward restaurant 50% food-sales test
Summary
The Village Board debated a second‑reading liquor ordinance that would change license counts and classifications; trustees urged clarifying whether the 50% restaurant threshold measures food sales alone or total gross receipts (which could include gaming), and asked the Liquor Control Commission to rework rules for clearer, fairer enforcement.
Trustees spent substantial time on March 23 debating language in a second‑reading ordinance that would shift the number of Class AAA and Class I liquor licenses available in Villa Park.
At issue was a statutory and local test for restaurant licenses that bars reissuance unless "the sale of liquor produces less than 50% of the total gross receipts." Attorney Morton noted the ordinance currently…
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