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I am not sure how the restaurant I go to was allowed to open in Irving. Irving has a 50% food to alcohol code requirement for restaurant/bar to get their CO. However, before this happened, TABC had them listed as 51%.

Keith B wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:38 pm

KC5AV wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:39 am Are they allowed to make that determination at their own discretion? I thought the sign color was based on what they report to TABC.

When a business renews their license with the TABC, they must declare if they are 51% or not based on the income source. I will bet that is what they had to do and since their food sales outweighed the alcohols sales, they had to now declare they were not a 51% establishment.

I am assuming that is what they did. I know they closed for 2 weeks to obtain a different license from TABC and now the red sign is gone and the blue has been put up. I guess similar to what Billy Bobs and some of the others have done to stay in business

Found a good issue with the current rules on Covid. A little sports grille that I like to eat at unfortunately had to post 51% signs at the end of last year. With the new rules for bars/restaurants, they now are less than 51% alcohol sales and they have changed their license for restaurant service with less than 51% and signs have gone blue.