US EditionSenator Pitches Happy Hour Bill From Provincetown Brewery
MASSACHUSETTS, JUL 8 – Sen. Julian Cyr seeks to help local businesses by allowing municipalities to permit happy hours, aiming to boost downtown economies amid post-pandemic challenges in Massachusetts.
- State Senator Julian Cyr from the Cape and Islands pitched a bill Monday in a Statehouse hearing to repeal Massachusetts' happy hour ban that has lasted since 1984.
- The ban was originally enacted to reduce drunk driving, but Cyr argues it no longer fits modern realities and the measure has repeatedly failed to pass before.
- Cyr said small businesses, bars, and restaurants are struggling post-pandemic and that permitting safe happy hour promotions would boost profits and bring more customers.
- The Massachusetts Restaurant Association and the Package Stores Association both oppose the bill, with Robert Mellion expressing their unified resistance to any legislation that would allow discounted alcohol sales within the state.
- If passed, the legislation would give local governments the authority to implement happy hour promotions within designated time frames, which could support economic growth, though a committee decision is still forthcoming.
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Cape lawmaker wants bars and restaurants to have happy hours again
PROVINCETOWN – Cape and Island State Senator Julian Cyr is once again calling for a repeal of the Massachusetts ban on happy hours. The state prohibited the period of time where bars offer discounted drinks in 1984, in order to reduce drunk driving incidents. Cyr, who has filed similar legislation in the past, says he […] The post Cape lawmaker wants bars and restaurants to have happy hours again appeared first on CapeCod.com.
Just in time for summer, Cape lawmaker tries again to return Happy Hour to Mass.
With a “cold beer” sign as his backdrop from a Provincetown brewery, Sen. Julian Cyr made his latest pitch Monday morning to repeal the state’s happy hour ban, as lobbyists representing restaurants and package stores balked at the prospect of drink promotions cutting into their bottom lines.
Senator pitches happy hour bill from Provincetown brewery
BOSTON — With a “cold beer” sign as his backdrop from a Provincetown brewery, Sen. Julian Cyr made his latest pitch Monday morning to repeal the state’s happy hour ban, as lobbyists representing restaurants and package stores balked at the prospect of drink promotions cutting into their bottom lines. Cities and towns would have the option to offer happy hour promotions for alcoholic beverages during specific time windows under proposals from Cyr…
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State Sen. Julian Cyr takes another shot at bringing back ‘Happy Hour’
A “boring” city of Boston may not be the biggest crisis facing the state, but the topic got some discussion Monday at the State House. The city has a “fun crisis” said Cape Cod’s state Sen. Julian Cyr, who is asking his colleagues to again advance a bill aimed at returning “happy hour” to Bay State cities and towns which want it. Speaking from inside the Provincetown Brewing Company on Monday, Cyr testified before Joint Committee on Consumer Pro…
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