New Jersey

This bill will allow a restaurant at main street to serve wine, beer, and spirits as long as it is served at a table. The 35 dry towns can remain dry - but those that aren't - need Trenton to get out of our way.

The distributor license is very different than the retail consumption license.

The distributors could win big in this scenario - as could the wholesalers - and entirely different license.

I think the "a" plan (how I'm approaching this) needs to be wine, beer, and spirits. . . The win could be just wine and beer.

We don't (in our town) want to be New Hope PA - but a "date night" destination. A successful Tapas restaurant from the town I used to live in made clear to me . . . jag - we could do a second restaurant with wine and craft beer. Their clientele does the small plate almost always with a tasting of the country's wine or a beer. When they looked at the wealth demographics of our county - and then our borough (county seat) - it could be a money maker.

They don't draw from us in our old town - we tend to go over the border to New Hope.