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âThis gives us a fighting chanceâ â Utah lifts alcohol curfew at bars, restaurants
Gov. Gary Herbert orders the removal as hospitality industry agrees to coronavirus safety measures. Lawsuit over the curfew likely to go away as bars and restaurants able to serve later.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stephanie Morrison serves a drink at Club 90 in Sandy, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that the state s 10 p.m. curfew on alcohol service at bars and restaurants will be lifted starting Friday. | Updated: Dec. 18, 2020, 4:18 a.m.
Utahâs 10 p.m. curfew on alcohol service at bars and restaurants will be lifted starting Friday, the governor announced, but with the longer service hours come stricter social distancing standards for patrons.
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Gov. Gary Herbert lifted Utah s 10 p.m. alcohol sales curfew and announced changes to quarantine guidelines for schools on Thursday. Caption: KUTV EVENT
The elimination of the alcohol curfew will go into effect Friday.
Under a health order, restaurants and bars were required to stop serving alcohol at 10 p.m. in areas designated as high transmission to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
A lawsuit was filed last week against the governor to challenge the order. This week, industry leaders met with state leaders, telling them to remove the curfew because it threatened to put them out of business.
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A little over a year ago, Ali Sabbah opened the third location of his popular Mazza restaurant, the largest of the three, in Sandy.
In September, he tried to reopen the Sandy location, but he had to close again when one of his cooks tested positive.
âI got to thinking, I canât be doing this every time someone has symptoms,â he told me Friday, so he went back to just doing takeout orders, but it wasnât feasible to stay open for five to 10 orders a night. He closed again, for good.