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oohrah wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:48 am

Soccerdad1995 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 9:12 am

Jusme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:41 pm

Tex1961 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:06 am Not sure how this will play out, but I did manage to get a 51% sign removed over the weekend. Wife and I were going for brunch at a little bistro near our home. We've been going to this restaurant for several years. Anyway, as we were about to walk into the door I noticed a new shiny red 51% sign in the window. So I'm like say WHAT... so the door opens and a young man greets us and I ask him what's up with the sign?, and asked so when do you guys sell more alcohol than food? Your a bistro.. He wasn't too sure so I asked if he could get his manager and that I couldn't come in with that sign posted. He grabbed his manager and I asked him the same question and he was like I don't know, the owner just put it up this morning but yea, we don't sell hardly any alcohol here... He grabbed the sign off the window and bade us in to sit down and enjoy our brunch. I'll have to wait to go back to find out what is going on as the owner wasn't in so I couldn't ask what his intentions were... Hopefully just a misunderstanding and he doesn't want a 30.06....

If they put the sign back up, contact the TABC, you can check their sign status on line. If it is not a red sign, they are in violation of the TABC code.

Also, I believe that the TABC license is the determining factor, not the sign. Meaning if they are a Red sign location (>51% alcohol sales), then you are prohibited from carrying there regardless of their signage. Someone please correct me if I am wrong here.

I agree. Hopefully it would be a defense to prosecution if they posted incorrectly. But it is easy enough to look up a license status on the TABC website.

Keep in mind that if it is a newer establishment, they haven't collected the actual receipts to determine their 51% status, so the TABC will make the BLUE or RED determination based on estimates, so it may actually be incorrect until they renew.

Tex1961 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:06 am Not sure how this will play out, but I did manage to get a 51% sign removed over the weekend. Wife and I were going for brunch at a little bistro near our home. We've been going to this restaurant for several years. Anyway, as we were about to walk into the door I noticed a new shiny red 51% sign in the window. So I'm like say WHAT... so the door opens and a young man greets us and I ask him what's up with the sign?, and asked so when do you guys sell more alcohol than food? Your a bistro.. He wasn't too sure so I asked if he could get his manager and that I couldn't come in with that sign posted. He grabbed his manager and I asked him the same question and he was like I don't know, the owner just put it up this morning but yea, we don't sell hardly any alcohol here... He grabbed the sign off the window and bade us in to sit down and enjoy our brunch. I'll have to wait to go back to find out what is going on as the owner wasn't in so I couldn't ask what his intentions were... Hopefully just a misunderstanding and he doesn't want a 30.06....

SigM4 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 5:39 am Maybe more people are using/contributing to the app? Which if true would stand to reason that more members would result in better reporting/coverage of an area.

As Jusme noted I haven’t seen any increase in the numbers of places posted, but I did notice a huge influx of new members on the app. Maybe Russell will comment on what they’re seeing.