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New York Soft Pouch Beer & Wine
by evansfox | Sep 27, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
There are many options for packaging craft beverages these days. The use of soft pouches is attractive from a cost perspective and it provides a great branding opportunity. Visually distinctive product packaging is key for prospective customers to find your product on...
Alternating Proprietorship and Participation of Host in Tenant’s Operations
by evansfox | Sep 23, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
If I have an alternating proprietorship, Can I use the host’s staff as independent contractors to assist me in alcoholic beverage production? Yes, as long as the written agreement between the Host and Tenant provides for this situation and it is structured to be...
Good Summer Read
by evansfox | Sep 22, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
Leane Itale introduced Susan Cheever’s Drinking In America: Our Secret History. I will be reading it this summer and hope you will join me. I love the tidbits about the role of alcohol in historical events. Her researched factual account of events surrounding major...
3 Ways Restaurants Can Use Technology to Combat the $15 Minimum Wage Increase
by evansfox | Sep 21, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Beer walls like Ruins Pub in Kansas City Automated cocktail dispensing machines like Tended Bar Tableside or kiosk automated ordering and payment systems These touch screen technologies appeal to customers because they don’t have to wait for servers to place an order...
Tips for Breaking Free from Alice’s Shackles
by evansfox | Sep 21, 2016 | Patent
I wish I had never met Alice! I feel she’s imposed on me, much like how a spouse is imposed on another in an arranged marriage or a mother-in-law that overstayed her welcome. Alice is here to stay. Of course I’m referring to the 2014 decision of the United States...
Money Making Idea
by evansfox | Sep 20, 2016 | Retail Liquor License
Working with a lot of craft and microbreweries, I am often asked about adding event space, additional bar space and outdoor seating. The good news is that business is brisk enough to justifying adding more functional space to service more customers. The best business...
This machine can help restaurant & bars fight $15 hr minimum wage
by evansfox | Sep 19, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
As a patent attorney with a practice focus on restaurants, bars & craft beverage producers, I was excited to learn about Tended Bar, an automatic alcoholic beverage dispensing machine. Not only is the technology just plain cool, it can be one solution to help...
ROC Flavors Introduces Vegetarian Indian Food
by evansfox | Sep 18, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Michele Kayal’s From an actress to an author of Indian Cookbooks: the lives of Madhur Jaffrey in ROC flavors introduces vegetarian Indian food. I am not vegetarian but I absolutely love vegetables and ethnic food. The flavors of India bring excitement to the pallet in...
On Call Practice Could Result in Big Penalties and Back Wages
by evansfox | Sep 17, 2016 | Restaurants & Bar
Restaurant Owners should take note of the New York Attorney General’s written notice to several national retailers (J Crew, Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, Williams & Sonoma, and Urban Outfitters) concerning “on call”...
Talk About a Shitty Day at Work!
by evansfox | Sep 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
A grocery store warehouse company had a most unusual situation- someone was defecating (pooping) around the food warehouse. The employer wanted to identify the offender among its employees. It took saliva swabs of two suspected employees to use the DNA to identify the...
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