Utah Struggles With Liquor Laws Mandating Bartenders Be Hidden From View

Utah is currently struggling with draconian liquor laws that mandate that restaurant bartenders must be hidden from public view and that 70 percent of restaurant receipts must be for meals, explains the Salt Lake Tribune.

Restaurant owner Dimitri Golesis wanted a bar for people to watch sports and watch the bartender mix drinks. "But with no bartender in sight, few of our customers want to sit at what is now just a counter." The manager at Silver restaurant in Park City also felt that the rules gave visitors a negative impression about Utah.

Between 2001 and 2009, alcohol consumption by gallon has increased 54 percent in Utah, more than double that of the population increase.

In the past, a private club membership was required to enter bars. That policy has since been eliminated, proving that there is hope for other outdated liquor laws to follow suit.

Comments

[jsrl317]

12:45 PM on 07/20/2011

What a wacked out religious state. By the way conservacons, this is what state+religion looks like. Like it? Move to Utah!

[mmgbizgirl]

09:18 AM on 06/06/2011

Backwards.

[RatgurlSD]

12:21 AM on 06/05/2011

Wow, what brilliant lawmaker passed THAT law? Stewpid!!

[delfry]

09:49 AM on 06/04/2011

If I was a tavern owner I would put a DVD together of all the bartender scenes in movies and play that on a loop. Unless Mormons have something against TV's playing in taverns as well...

[FranklinCat]

12:16 AM on 06/04/2011

With a little imagination, a bar owner could get very creative with the law's requirements.

[Targetdog]

04:10 PM on 06/03/2011

Didn't Jesus turn water into wine? WTF?

[jusathot]

09:08 AM on 06/04/2011

:)

[Prousa]

04:03 PM on 06/03/2011

"the rules gave visitors a negative impression about Utah."

Ya think?

[calltoaction]

12:09 AM on 06/03/2011

is this the big bad dem big govt?

[Prousa]

04:03 PM on 06/03/2011

Umm, red state.

[calltoaction]

10:53 PM on 06/04/2011

Exactly.

[rich3324]

09:31 PM on 06/02/2011

Government is too big. Unless you go into a bar or have a vagina.

[Parkite]

07:58 PM on 06/02/2011

I believe that bartenders in RESTAURANTS need to be hidden from diners, but NOT bartenders in BARS.

[David W Griffin]

04:07 PM on 06/02/2011

THis is more things that are nuts. The Mormons, IE the church of jesus christ of lds id=s so much into lookiing right like the rest of the world that they have all but forgotten the central figure of their religion. That being Jesus Christ.

[sigh-ence]

01:41 PM on 06/02/2011

Calling Claude Rains...

[POPE INNOCENT]

11:08 AM on 06/02/2011

Ugly skanky Mormon bartenders!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA

[Kelly Jade]

10:46 AM on 06/02/2011

I can mix my own Jack and coke but I got back to certain bars because I like the bartender.

[OutAtFirst]

09:24 AM on 06/02/2011

Pay no attention to that man behind the (Zion) curtain!