DFW Sunday Food Purchase Requirement for Liquor Gone?
May 1, 2016, 10:02 am
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DFW Sunday Food Purchase Requirement for Liquor Gone?
According to one of the AC Bartenders this morning, you no longer have to purchase food to get an alcoholic beverage at DFW on Sunday. He said that a deal was made on the basis of the AC giving out enough complementary food that membership fees qualify for food purchases (similar to country clubs, as he said). So no more accumulating a bunch of bags of chips just to get drinks!
HOORAH.
HOORAH.
Last edited by brewdog11; May 1, 2016 at 11:04 am Reason: Corrected error thanks to another FTer
May 1, 2016, 12:18 pm
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According to one of the AC Bartenders this morning, you no longer have to purchase food to get an alcoholic beverage at DFW on Sunday. He said that a deal was made on the basis of the AC giving out enough complementary food that membership fees qualify for food purchases (similar to country clubs, as he said). So no more accumulating a bunch of bags of chips just to get drinks!
HOORAH.
HOORAH.
May 2, 2016, 8:08 am
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Seems odd to me that I have been using the AC for over 20 years and have never been asked to buy food on a Sunday @ DFW. And most of my flight's start on a Sunday.
May 2, 2016, 8:31 am
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^ I have been a member of the AC for over two years and have never been asked to purchase food in order to get a drink at a DFW club on Sunday either.
May 2, 2016, 8:35 am
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Sunday alcohol thing at DFW due to local county law only applies to alcohol purchase before 12 noon. If it was after 12 noon on Sunday then it has always been able to purchase drink only without purchase of any food.
May 2, 2016, 8:41 am
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Couldn't (in the worst case scenario
) the AC sell (very) small bags of pretzels to go with your drinks @$0.25 each? Shouldn't this meet the drink rule conditions (though probably violating the "true" spirit of the law).
) the AC sell (very) small bags of pretzels to go with your drinks @$0.25 each? Shouldn't this meet the drink rule conditions (though probably violating the "true" spirit of the law).
May 2, 2016, 8:50 am
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Heard it used to be no alcohol sale before 12 noon on Sunday, period. But restaurants complained that they cannot serve alcohol for Sunday brunch, hence changed the law to need serve food along with alcohol before 12 noon on Sunday.
May 3, 2016, 11:20 am
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We still have remnants of some of the old blue laws here in Bible Belt country. You can't purchase alcohol in a supermarket or warehouse store before noon on Sunday. I didn't know they had allowed it in restaurants - in the past they didn't, before noon.
May 3, 2016, 1:53 pm
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The ORD AC won't serve booze at all before 11 AM on Sundays, and that's hardly "bible belt" country.