Michigan Liquor Control Commission recently allowed on-premise licensees to sell beer and wine for carry out. That’s good news, says the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, but it doesn’t go far enough. What’s needed is for these same licensees to be able to sell mixed drinks to go.
“Loosening regulations on to-go sales would give businesses an opportunity to increase revenues and provide job opportunities at a time when they are struggling to survive. The LCC seems to recognize this but only insofar as it involves beer and wine,” writes Michael D. LaFaive on the center’s blog.
“It sometimes seems much of the state’s liquor code and related rules are written for a protected class of apparently influential beer and wine wholesaling monopolists,” he adds.