Cocktails-To-Go In Pennsylvania Becoming Partisan Nightmare Leaving Many Restaurants In Limbo

By Natasha Brown, CBS Philadelphia

June 18, 2021

Pennsylvania restaurants are hoping to be able to once again serve to-go cocktails. It’s no longer allowed now that the legislature ended Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 emergency after voters approved a ballot question restricting the governor’s powers in emergency declarations.

Drinks to-go became a lifeline for struggling restaurants during the height of the pandemic. It abruptly ended when Pennsylvania’s emergency disaster declaration ended on Tuesday.

Now, it’s becoming a partisan nightmare leaving many restaurants in limbo.

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