New commercial alcohol law in Ecuador

[rednose]

The minister of the government and minister of truism decided to prohibit any alcohol sales on Sundays. During the week liquor shops have to close at midnight.

They went that far that they said that it will improve the truism.

I don’t know where those guys are coming from but in any international kitchen good food are campaigned with wine, beer and liquors.

They say that this law was done cause 10% of all homicides are directly involved in bad use of alcohol.

If that is right than 90% of the killers don’t drink and kill anyhow, why they don’t start to hunt those?

Well, this was a big surprise and we had to suffer losses during the last weekend in plain fathers day in our hotel.

I’m going to sell one of the twins and maybe stop the biz here in EC and go elsewhere, not sure yet.

If you like to have a beer or wine in a restaurant with your food don’t visit Ecuador - you’ll stay dry on Sundays.

I’m only wondering what they gonna do with all the folks that will lose their employment cause bars, restaurants, liquor shops, hostels, discotheques and many more close they doors?

And what they gonna do with all the new Al Capone’s which will sell bad quality liquor no matter where and to whom?

Joe

[olddog]

Thats bad news Joe. You will have to move to New Zealand with Kiwi.


OD

[LWTCS]

2 for 1 special sale on Saturdays I recon.

Gotta figger way's to promote Joe.

Do you serve food at your establishment Joe?

[rednose]

Maybe a society with Kiwi opening a distillery there?

Not bad idea OD.

Brasil could be another good bet, I lived there for almost 3 years before.

Thats bad news Joe. You will have to move to New Zealand with Kiwi.


OD

[rednose]

Yeah, a friend of mine told me yesterday to take advantage of the situation, have to get customed to it first, lol.

The restaurant is our income #1, 80% of the sales is (or was) on sundays.

How you gonna eat a ceviche without having an ice cold beer.

2 for 1 special sale on Saturdays I recon.

Gotta figger way's to promote Joe.

Do you serve food at your establishment Joe?

[kiwistiller]

That's no good joe. At least it is everywhere I guess, people will have to get used to not having the ice cold beer on sundays or change the day they go out.

[WalkingWolf]

I'm sorry to hear Joe. I thought it was only US politicians that had to save us from ourselves. I see dumbass has gone global. Best of luck to you.

[blanikdog]

... They say that this law was done cause 10% of all homicides are directly involved in bad use of alcohol.

If that is right than 90% of the killers don’t drink and kill anyhow, why they don’t start to hunt those? ...

Statistics are very handy for politicions to justify there mealy mouthed existence, Joe. When the Australian government decided to bam ownership of firearms here they quoted that suicide by shooting had dropped by 80%. When checking the source it added that suicide by hanging had increased by......................80%. The government neglected to use that statistic. For crissake, they would then have to ban rope!


We had the Sunday drinking law here - in Victoria - in the fifties. One had to be a 'bona fide' traveller to get a drink on Sunday. A 'bona fide' traveller was anyone who lived twenty five miles from the pub. It was amazing just how many people had a home address twenty five miles away.

The law became civilised during the sixties from memory and six pm closing also died. They were the days. At 5.50pm one had five or more 10oz glasses of beer to finish and then to vomit in the gutter outside the pub. Ahhhh yes, they were indeed the days.

blanik

[rednose]

... government decided to bam ownership of firearms

blanik

Oh, that was another masterpiece of equivocation of our happy president.

He prohibited about a year ago that the police handle out permissions for guns.

Now I can’t carry my Luger anymore and could have that I’m coming home having a burglar robbing my house and while he found my 9mm kills me with my own gun.

Criminals don’t care if it’s prohibited or not to carry guns, they do carry ‘em, it’s for them like a hammer for a carpenter.

Long talk short sense, since than crime went out of control as bad folks know that nobody of the good guys have a gun in the pocket and can work much quieter.

Most shop owners have to hire a professional guard to care but they can work for the other side as well.

Oh man, what will be next, a strict bith controll cause the ones that get born could get criminals?

[rednose]

Small update to this:

Some minutes ago the president declared in the national TV that they revised the law alter heavy protest of restaurant, bar and hotel owners and you can have your beer or wine now Sundays until 4 PM drinking with responsibility.

That is ok for me if there is a measurable result of the main reason of this law in the near future.

Why those people don’t think first before applying a law?

Joe

[kiwistiller]

good news!

[rednose]

Yeah, my problem has a temporally solution but now they are trying to prohibit Casinos, even in 5 star hotels.

Well, that's not my biz but they should revise that as well, most asia turist love to play roulette and that stuff.

What I see actually is that they really don't have an idea what to do to bring down the crime and panic in their comments/laws instead of touching the roots of the problem, a good economy for all.

Joe

good news!

[LWTCS]

a good economy for all.

Thats it. The bullseye.

The knee jerk reaction only makes those folks suffer that are trying to play by the rules.

[Aces High]

How about thinking outside the square. Put a surcharge on the food after these hours and provide the liquor free. Is it illegal to drink on sundays or just to sell

[rednose]

It's illegal to sell, not to drink.

With this law as a restaurant you can't give a drink as a gift or promotion as it's related to the bill of the customer.

You can drink at home as much as you wont, that's why I don't believe in any good results of this law.

Only thing that would have happen if they didn't revise the law is that folks don't go out and that is a big loss for the turismn.

I'm not happy with all this, especially for the distillery which I mainly wanted to promote in the hotel but I can live with the revised rule for the restaurant.

Time will tell what to do, actually I think I will shrink the equipment and production and observe the market for a while before taking any further big step.

We rarely had people in the restaurant that drank too much, if so they already came tanked and we didn't serve any more or just a beer.

Our place is a family directed, so we don't want drunken folks but our clients want to have their beer, glass of whisky or a wine with the food.

I will report in the future how this works out.

Joe

How about thinking outside the square. Put a surcharge on the food after these hours and provide the liquor free. Is it illegal to drink on sundays or just to sell