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Wallingford's Outdoor Dining Ordinance Loosened
Under the new ordinance, people can drink an alcoholic beverage outside at a restaurant without ordering food, just as one example.
Local business owners are praising an ordinance change recently passed by the Wallingford Town Council that loosens the restrictions on outdoor dining in town.
Under the new rules, restaurant patrons sitting outside are now allowed to order alcoholic beverages without ordering food, are allowed to drink out of bottles outside, umbrellas over outdoor dining tables can now bear the names of beverage producers and outdoor dining hours were extended another hour to midnight, according to The Record Journal. Restaurant owners praised the changes.
“To everybody, it seemed kind of prehistoric,” Paul Norton, general manager of Archie Moore's, told The Record Journal. “It was kind of tossing away business. That’s silly.”
The new rules are effectively immediately, according to The Record Journal.
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