Timely text lets Chops & Hops know they are up for liquor license, prevails at Watkinsville City Council meeting
The clink of liquor-filled glasses will soon be resonating at Chops & Hops restaurant on Main Street after the Watkinsville City Council approved its first distilled spirits application Wednesday at the Community Center near the end of the regular May meeting.
City council member Mike Link maintained his staunch anti-alcohol stance by remaining the lone member of Watkinsville elected refusing to support legitimate and proper applications before the city to increase the tax base. Municipal voters actually approved a liquor-by-the-drink referendum twice in consecutive elections due to a lack of being able to distinguish votes from those with a Watkinsville mailing address (but not in the city limits).
The otherwise unanimous vote nearly was tabled if not for the quick thinking of one Watkinsville resident who sent a text message to the busy restaurant tabling customers Wednesday night, the first night of summer vacation in the Oconee County school system. Mychell Lang made it over in time for the actual vote.
The exact time when someone will order a liquor drink in Watkinsville will remain up to several extenuating bureaucratic factors, the least of which being when the City gives them the actual license to go with the State License and insurance.
Congratulations are in order to Chops and Hops ownership and customers for climbing this enormous mountain together.
City council member Mike Link maintained his staunch anti-alcohol stance by remaining the lone member of Watkinsville elected refusing to support legitimate and proper applications before the city to increase the tax base. Municipal voters actually approved a liquor-by-the-drink referendum twice in consecutive elections due to a lack of being able to distinguish votes from those with a Watkinsville mailing address (but not in the city limits).
The otherwise unanimous vote nearly was tabled if not for the quick thinking of one Watkinsville resident who sent a text message to the busy restaurant tabling customers Wednesday night, the first night of summer vacation in the Oconee County school system. Mychell Lang made it over in time for the actual vote.
The exact time when someone will order a liquor drink in Watkinsville will remain up to several extenuating bureaucratic factors, the least of which being when the City gives them the actual license to go with the State License and insurance.
Congratulations are in order to Chops and Hops ownership and customers for climbing this enormous mountain together.
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