Sudden end of booze-to-go a ‘massive’ problem, NYC bar owners say
serve takeout and delivery cocktails, a lucrative and popular pandemic allowance. “Licensees please be advised that with the ending of our state of emergency and the return to pre-pandemic guidelines, the temporary pandemic-related privileges for to-go and delivery of alcoholic beverages will end after June 24,” the NYS Liquor Authority tweeted June 23. The sudden decision to end takeout drinks is not just intensely unpopular, restaurant and bar owners told Eater, but is also a huge blow to their bottom lines.The liquor-to-go allowance, which had been in effect since March 2020, had been “the one silver lining” of the pandemic, Halley Chambers, who runs Brooklyn eateries Rhodora Wine Bar, June Wine Bar and Rucola Restaurant, told The