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No it’s not. The margin on one beer is more than two entrees put together.

But a takeout beer would be higher margin than a sit-in beer.

How many people order takeout beer at restaurants? Depending on the city it's often not even legal.

Who would order a takeout beer? If I was going to get takeout and wanted a beer I’d stop at a liquor store or gas station on my way home.

In Pennsylvania at least liquor stores are state run and closed at the moment. You can get beer or wine at some gas stations but that's about it. Anything less popular than huge international brands or very, very popular micro-brews you typically have to go to a beer distributor for and most of those are closed, too (the only ones open are those defying the Governor's strong recommendation to close).

Basically if you want anything less popular than Sam Adams-level of popularity, you have to get it from a restaurant.

You can get to-go beer (6-packs, growlers, etc.) at any restaurant with a liquor license (provided they sell it that way). You can also get beer AND wine from a large number of grocery stores (Giant, Wegmans, etc.). Only liquor is sold by the state-run stores.

There are also all the local micro-breweries...

It’s crazy that PA shut down the liquor stores, hopefully there’s enough beer and wine left for the truly bad alcoholics that will seize and die without it, seems like a very foolish decision to me, to add the potential strain of alcoholics in withdrawal to the medical system.

A lot of people are just gonna hit the liquor store on their way.

That's probably only possible in places like New Orleans. I was surprised to learn about the notion of the "to-go cup" a few years back. It has significant explanatory power in some parts of the city.

It's not legal in most places, but being temporarily legalized in some. Washington, DC is passing a bill this afternoon [1] allowing takeout places to deliver beer/wine if ordered with at least one food item. I'm guessing other cities will pass something similar.

[1] edit: See section 203 photographed here: https://twitter.com/mitchryals/status/1239938801839099905

I couldn't find this by googling. Can you post a link?

It's part of the COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 [1] that was passed today.

[1] http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=653228&f=109&s=277...

To-go cups are legal in NYC as of Tuesday, so long as they're sold with food[0].

[0] https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/17/21182052/new-york-state-liquo...

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