Oregon approves cocktails to-go at last, sending lifeline to struggling restaurants and bars
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
Palomar is a Cuban-inspired bar and restaurant from former U.S. Bartender of the Year Ricky Gomez.Mark Graves
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In the early weeks of the pandemic, Oregon restaurants and bars watched as dozens of states across America rewrote policy or changed laws to allow the sale of cocktails to-go.
Yet even as state-mandated restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 prompted massive layoffs in the food industry, a job sector that employs nearly 10% of the workforce, the state declined to take up the issue.