Post #132145 by Swanky on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 12:54 PM

I'm a bit bummed. I contacted the City liquor board today and found out the requirements for a license. It squashes my ideas. It may well end the entire enterprise. Requirements:

Table seating for at least 75
You must serve at least one meal a day, five days a week.
You must have the kitchen to prepare said meals.

I was planning on not serving food so that it cuts down on cost and headaches. It also makes start-up a lot cheaper and just plain 1000 times easier. Food means a menu, staff, yadda yadda yadda. A million headaches.

So, I wil either have to see if the county is any easier to comply with and look for a location outside the city, which makes life harder, or, get with a lawyer and see if there is a way around the legal definition of "meal" and this whole seating thing and if trying such a thing would work, OR, change the entire business plan to be a restaurant and bar...

Life just got tougher, and the plans for a tiki bar in Knoxville, dimmer.