Today the Vancouver Sun published the following blog post about new Happy Hour rules, with new minimum pricing. Sounds good? Not when the minimum prices are higher than current ones. I don’t understand why the government has any say on what a business charges for a drink. In fact, if anything they should be putting a limit on what restaurants can charge for booze….oh wait, who is it that controls the flow of booze in this province?
Here is a chart of the how things break down and link to the post
Here are some tweets from some of Vancouver’s craft beer community.
I am disgusted! @JeremyDyson @John_Yap @SuzanneAnton @CAMRA_YVR like most of the “modernizations” to #bcliquor this is an epic fail
— Paddy Treavor (@Vaneastbeerblog) June 20, 2014
.@SuzanneAnton Wait. We can now have happy hours, but the new minimum prices are higher than many current standard prices?! Who wanted this? — Chuck Hallett (@Barley_Mowat) June 20, 2014
What do you think? I want to hear your comments here or in the tweets.
