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Two weeks into the latest prohibition on indoor dining in response to rising coronavirus infection rates in New York City, restaurant owners in the five boroughs are braced for brutal aftershocks as they battle a war against the cold.
As of Dec. 14 the only option for restaurant customers beyond takeout and delivery is dining outdoors. Even if you’re a Coney Island Polar Bear, that’s a hard sell when you can see your breath between bites. It’s the latest blow to a New York industry already battered by COVID-19.
“There are people who will do anything. They’ll wear parkas and eat under heat lamps,” said Jeffrey Bank, CEO of the Alicart Restaurant Group, which owns Carmine’s, where hefty platters of Italian classics have been served for 30 years.
Looming tax hike for craft breweries, distilleries adds to pandemic stress
and last updated 2020-12-18 20:00:10-05
The CBMTRA gives craft distillers, brewers, vintners, cider producers and mead makers a tax cut provides them with extra cash to reinvest into their businesses.
One of the provisions states that the CBMTRA reduces the federal excise tax to $3.50 per barrel on the first 60,000 barrels for domestic brewers producing fewer that 2 million barrels annually, according to the Brewer s Association.
Before, the federal excise tax was double the cost, at $7.00 per barrel.
The CBMTRA is set to expire on December 31. Therefore, on January 1, 2021, businesses would face a tax hike that doubles the federal excise tax on every barrel produced.
Awards are nothing new for Rick White. His brewery, Port OâPints, wins them all the time.
Heâs even won some during the pandemic. Just this month, his brewery won a silver medal for its strong, barrel-aged Belgian and a bronze medal for its root beer.
After a few good years getting established in town and within the community of âbeer geeksâ across the northwest and the country, White said the brewery was looking forward to a strong year in 2020.
That all changed, of course, when a virus turned the world upside-down.
 âYou finally feel like youâre on your feet, the five-year mark,â White said. âNow, this has kind of left a sour taste in my mouth.â
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Our intrepid Social Media Guru, Justin, was in local grocery concern mode as he perused the aisles for a tasty beverage and was stopped cold by the sign you see above.
Now, we know there are concerns over the hoarding of toilet paper, but who knew that millions of people stuck at home, drinking gallons of soda and beer each day, would result in a shortage of aluminum for cans?
Looking up and down the aisle, it appeared painfully obvious that there was a serious shortage that needed to be addressed, as we see below presented as Exhibit A: