Bars to 4AM!

[Allison Slater]

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_story.aspx...42&catid=14

Liquor license owners would pay $1,500 for permits to stay open until 4 A.M. and sell alcohol before noon on Sunday.

It's an idea Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm supports but most police departments oppose.

[trongrr]

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[gvsusean]

We have other examples to look at.. How well does it work in Chicago? S. Carolina? I am not 100% sure, but as it stands I am pro 4am

[suydam]

I don't see the big deal.

2am was an arbitrary time anyway.

There used to be "third shift" bars that you could go to at 8am and get a beer with factory workers getting off 3rd shift.

I say let businesses decide and it won't be that big of a deal.

If it's anything like Chicago, it'll be a small number of establishments anyway. It costs more to stay open later, and that added cost is going to mean that only a select set of bars even bother making the jump.

[Allison Slater]

I imagine we'd be talking about places such as the BOB and other high-income establishments. Supposedly EVE at the BOB is already open to 3, they just don't serve any alcohol during the last hour.

[snoogit]

I say it's worth it. There will be few bars that would be open, and I highly doubt there will be that many people still out at 7AM, unless they are masochists.

[Ted]

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