(a) “Service bar license” is a retail liquor license permitting the service of alcoholic liquor by the drink to customers by waitresses or waiters. A service bar license does not permit the service of drinks directly to customers at a bar or at a liquor service area, but is required any time alcoholic beverages are served away from a bar or liquor service area. Retail beer, retail wine, and retail beer and wine licensees that have waiters or waitresses serve patrons beer or wine are not required to have a service bar license. One service bar license is required for each separate bar or individual liquor service area, but multiple licenses are not required if the service areas are from the same physical bar structure.
(b) Except when a service bar liquor license is issued alone in conjunction with a restaurant, service bar licenses are not “stand alone” licenses and are only issued in conjunction with other qualifying liquor licenses issued to the same licensee at the same premises.
(c) It is unlawful for a licensee with a service bar liquor license alone in conjunction with a restaurant to serve alcoholic beverages to patrons in their establishment unless it is at dining tables or booths and only in conjunction with complete meals ordered by restaurant patrons.
(d) However, notwithstanding the above restriction, a licensee with a service bar liquor license alone in conjunction with a restaurant that also has a portion of their business offering karaoke to patrons in areas or rooms physically separated from the restaurant portion of the business, may serve beer and wine to patrons in the karaoke sections without the meal requirement, provided that: (1) the full service restaurant including its kitchen is open for patronage at all times alcoholic beverages are served on the premises; (2) that a separate cook and waiter/waitress is on duty at all times alcoholic beverages are served on the premises; and (3) there are no minors in a karaoke room where the beer and/or wine would be served.
(e) A service bar license shall not be issued in conjunction with a retail beer license or retail beer and wine license at the same licensed premises, except to a resort hotel licensee. However, the license of a licensee who was granted a service bar license and a retail beer license or retail beer and wine license prior to June 1, 1997, at the same licensed premises, may be renewed if the location does not remain without that nonconforming combination of licenses for a period of six consecutive months. Use of the service bar liquor license by these nonconforming licensees is restricted to the service of alcoholic beverages only at dining tables or booths and only in conjunction with complete meals ordered by restaurant patrons. (Ord. L-233-06 § 8, 2006: Ord. L-232-05 § 71, 2005)