No. HB 87
Issuance of Special Beverage Licenses; Revises service area square footage & capacity of bona fide food service establishment that may be issued special license.
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AI-GENERATEDFlorida lets a 'bona fide food service establishment' get a special alcoholic beverage license outside the usual population-based quota, if it meets minimum size and seating thresholds. This bill lowers those thresholds.
The required service area drops from 2,000 to 1,200 square feet. The restaurant now only needs to be equipped to serve, and seat, 80 people at once instead of 120.
Every other condition is unchanged: the restaurant must still hold itself out as a restaurant and get at least 51 percent of its food-and-beverage revenue from food and nonalcoholic drinks.
AIA restaurant seeking this special license needed at least 2,000 square feet of service area. The bill lowers that floor to 1,200 square feet, letting smaller restaurants meet the space requirement.
AIThe establishment had to be equipped to serve meals to, and seat, 120 people at once. The bill lowers that threshold to 80, so smaller restaurants can qualify for the special beverage license.