Some bars across New York state are creating snarky $1 menus in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new rule requiring food be purchased with alcohol.
The new rules, announced Thursday, went into effect Friday as the latest attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The State Liquor Authority has issued “guidance” on the new rules for bars, restaurants and tasting rooms (such as breweries and wineries), including prohibiting customers from ordering drinks directly from the bar itself to maintain social distancing.
“The purpose of the requirement that food be sold with alcohol is to permit outside and limited indoor dining (outside of New York City), with alcoholic beverages, while restricting the congregating and mingling that arise in a bar service/drinking only environment,” the guidance says. NYC has not yet reopened indoor dining, while Upstate New York has been able to for weeks.
Some pubs have responded with creativity and snark.
Jake Hafner’s Restaurant & Tavern in North Syracuse is selling a variety of $1 “compliance” items, including a “handful o’ croutons,” a bag of chips, and a four-ounce cup of whipped cream.
NewsChannel 9′s Andrew Donovan reports the Home Team Pub in Liverpool has created a dollar menu selling one pretzel bite (”no really just one bite and it’s gone”), a handful of tortilla chips (”maybe with salsa if your lucky”), or “some tater tots” (”1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 tater tots. We are not sure how to count. Schools closed.”) for $1 each.
Harvey’s in Saratoga Springs, New York, created a $1 menu offering called “Cuomo Chips.”
“Here’s your food Cuomo,” owner Matthew Brian Bagley wrote on Facebook. “I’ll buy your first chip.”
Sickenberger Lane in Utica similarly said on Facebook it would be serving “our house made potato chips all night long to be served with your alcohol or non alcohol beverage purchase.”
The Lafayette Brewing Company in Buffalo created a $1 menu with options like “the smallest piece of cheesecake in Buffalo” or “just a few grapes, not sure the color.”
But chips or grapes likely don’t count as “food.”
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon suggested Thursday that Doritos might be food under the rule, but it’s not clear that he was being serious. For most bars or restaurants, food is defined as “sandwiches, soups or other foods, whether fresh, processed, precooked or frozen.” It suggests snacks do not qualify, but doesn’t explicitly rule out items like chips, grapes, pretzels, peanuts and crackers.
For “manufacturers” like wineries, breweries, distilleries and hard cider makers with tasting rooms, food can also include “items intended to compliment the tasting of alcoholic beverages, which shall mean a diversified selection of food that is ordinarily consumed without the use of tableware and can be conveniently consumed, including but not limited to: cheese, fruits, vegetables, chocolates, breads, mustards and crackers.”
WIVB reports Hamburg Brewing tried to offer Dum Dums — lollipops — for a penny to satisfy the rule, but is now adding $0.01 crackers to all beer orders.
There are also ways for customers to minimize costs while following the new rule. If you’re at a table with a group, one or more “shareable food item(s) may be purchased, so long as it/they would sufficiently serve the number of people in the party.” (This appears to mean customers don’t need to keep ordering food as they order more alcohol.)
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