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As straight forward as you may believe purchasing liquor for your bar may be, there is a thought process behind it. Your liquor purchases are an important investment your business is making towards income generating inventory and there are many factors that making the best investment for the least amount of money.

Purchasing and recording your liquor purchases are very important parts of your business in large part because liquor has a mass appeal. If you don't take care of your liquor investment, you expose your business to shrinkage and waste. The major reason we purchase liquor for our business is to well stock our bars so we can sell more drinks and make more sales at a cost that helps us maximize our profitability. To do so, as operators, we should be following these steps to always stay in control of our liquid assets:

Plan our orders correctly: when placing our liquor orders, it is very important we first verify our stock levels and ask several suppliers to be certain we are getting the best pricing.






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Liquor cabinet can add beauty and elegance to your home interior design. Setting up the liquor cabinet does not have to be difficult. It requires a little bit of imagination with space planning and interior styling. Consider adding decorations, different types of lighting and accessories to create the kind of environment you want. You can have a romantic, exotic, casual, formal or modern ambiance if you like. At home, a liquor cabinet can be placed in a designated room or in a place that offers comfort and convenience to you as a host. You'll be able to stock wine and spirits that you and your spouse can enjoy after dinner or offer to friends or guests to show your hospitality.

Liquor cabinets serve as storage for liquor, beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks. They may have built-in wine racks, bottle shelves, stemware hangers and drawers for drinking accessories like paper umbrellas. Glassware can be hanged or displayed on the shelves while other utensils are kept in the drawers. The decanters can be placed at the service counter for serving cocktails and mixed drinks. There are liquor cabinets with doors and complete with locking mechanism. This is to ensure wine and spirits are safe as well as keeping bottles, glassware and decanters clean and out of children's reach. Liquor cabinets can be stylish home furnishings for a couple's relaxing and peaceful night after dinner.

There are things to be considered when purchasing a liquor cabinet. First of all, you need to decide where to place your cabinet. Space planning is important so that making major changes in home interior design can be avoided. Take into consideration the space where the home bar could be placed. This is important in determining the size and style of the cabinet bar.






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If you need a gift in a hurry and you know your recipient enjoys a good Scotch Whiskey, the usual routine is to run to the nearest liquor retailer, buy the Scotch Whiskey and bring it home. This is not the end. Now you have to get a strong gift box and a lot of bubblewrap to keep it all in one piece during shipping. Now you make the run to the post office to send it out and pay an unearthly sum for the service hoping it gets there in original form and in time. I hope the person getting this liquor gift is special enough for all that you have gone through.

There is an easier way to get this done. Go to your nearest computer and check out online liquor store, choose your liquor gift, call them and place the order, give them the address and they do the rest.

It is just as hectic to stock your own liquor cabinet from the nearby liquor store. The routine is a little different but not much. Now you have to go up and down the aisles searching for what you want and if your lucky you may find a clerk that will tell you where it is. You fill the shopping cart and stand in line to get checked out and pay for it including the liquor taxes where applicable. You have it put in boxes and put into the trunk of your car and all the way home you hope you don't hit a bump. You finally get it all home without any mishaps and sit down to take a deep breath and rest.







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Using fish bowls to create miniature liquor displays is popular among a variety of restaurants, taverns, liquor stores, and other establishments that sell alcohol; however, before you dive into this lucrative addition to your countertop, take a look at the three steps below.

Before you think about which miniature liquors you're going to sell and the kinds of fish bowls you're going to display them in, you must take a look at the amount of counter space you have to work with. Ultimately, this space is going to determine how big or small your miniature liquor display will need to be, which in turn helps you determine what kinds of containers and miniature liquors you need to purchase.

If you have an ample amount of counter space, your options are plentiful. You can create small displays consisting of one large container or a few small containers, or you can create large displays consisting of numerous large or small containers or even a mixture of both large and small containers.

If you have a modest amount of counter space to work with, however, your options are a bit more limited. Note that it's still entirely possible to create an attractive miniature liquor display with fish bowls; you'll just need to make sure the sizes of the containers and the bottles fit well with your counter space.









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One question that we frequently hear from our California clients is, "Why can't I just get a liquor license directly from the state?" In some cases the answer is, you can, but for those who wish to sell a full line of alcoholic beverages it's not so simple. The reason is that in California full liquor licenses are considered 'quota' or 'grandfathered' licenses and, with one notable exception, must be purchased from a private seller. And this means that the value of such licenses vary from county to county and is based, like real estate, on supply and demand.

Liquor licenses are considered personal property and can be traded, sold or given to others with the proviso that the state reserves the right to deny unqualified persons the privilege of being licensed. So again, applying for a liquor license does not guarantee an automatic approval. The review process is designed in large part to protect communities, as much as possible, from unscrupulous operators. While the stringent review procedure, which is a vestige from the days of Prohibition, is cumbersome and time consuming, in many ways this old fashioned approach is still useful as a deterrent.

So assuming you get past the regulators, the next question we hear a lot is, "What is the cost of a liquor license in California?", and the answer is, it varies. Each of California's 58 counties has it's own pricing for both the type 21 off sale license (liquor store or supermarket) as well as the on sale general type 47 (restaurant). In addition, prices vary according to market availability so they do not remain static. The best approach, once you've decided to apply for a liquor license, is to give yourself a minimum of 90 days ( and ideally 180 days), and begin your search and negotiation for the type of license you need in your county. By giving yourself this much lead time, you're as sure as you can be that your Grand Opening will include sales of alcohol.








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In Canada, when one has a restaurant that serves liquor, they are required to have a liquor license. Issuing a liquor license is the responsibility of provincial governments. The guidelines for obtaining a liquor license in Canada can vary, but there are general laws that restaurants must abide by in order to receive and maintain a liquor license.

Each province will categorize liquor licenses into specific licenses or classes. Generally speaking, this can include: special event licenses, licenses for restaurants, lounges... etc., licenses for recreational facilities, canteens...etc, licenses for private clubs, licenses for retail liquor stores, hotels...etc, and licenses for making liquor. How the various establishments are classified will depend on the province.

The purpose of these licenses is to ensure that liquor is being managed in a responsible manner. In each province's plan, "liquor" refers to all categories of beverage alcohol including beer, wine, spirits, liqueurs, and coolers. The regulations serve as direction on how to sell, serve, manage, and purchase alcohol.

In general, liquor laws in Canada can include: how and where one can drink alcohol such as not permitting customers to leave the restaurant with the alcohol, the age of which one can be served alcohol, how to sell the alcohol such as by traditional payment or by another method such as using tickets, and how to store the alcohol. A specific license is normally issued for the sale and consumption of liquor in establishments where food is served.

There are also regulations regarding minors in a restaurant that serves alcohol. As well, there are other regulations such as a food menu that must be available to customers during the hours that liquor service is available. Also, a properly equipped liquor service bar is required. The liquor service area should normally include the following: backup stock and empty container storage area, appropriate refrigeration, an area for beverage preparation, and an accurate measuring device for making and serving alcohol spirits. The restaurant should also have the appropriate security to prevent theft of their alcohol.







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The scene is typical. You walk into your favorite tavern, peer through the smoke filled room and saddle on up to the bar. You ask the bartender for a Jack Daniels. He pours your glass about three quarters of the way full. "Don't cheat me Joe." you say firmly. The bartender finishes filling your shot glass. You thank him, take the shot, put your money on the bar and go about enjoying the atmosphere.

Sound familiar? Well this is the scene that has played out in bars, taverns, and night clubs for years. Bar goers are always trying to get the most bang for their buck and bartenders are always trying to get the most buck for their bang. A new technology called a liquor control system offers a solution to the bartender/patron power struggle.

Liquor Control Systems are a revolutionary technology that may just change the way bar sales are handled. It is a spout that goes on top the bottle of liquor that measures the amount of liquid poured. As the liquid is poured a wireless transmitter measures liquor and sends that information to a computer which then totals the price. Pretty amazing huh!












Philip Whalen's CLASSICS SHELF (condensed)


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Notebook entry, Kyoto, 1967: Philip Whalen (Bancroft Library, U. of California)



24:VII:58 ...I write this in bed at 3:40 A.M. after a day of reading, almost continuous reading -- (re-reading Tristram Shandy) -- during which I kept promising myself “I will stop at the end of this chapter & try to begin writing again.” I didn’t actually stop until a few minutes ago.

I got into this pickle by starting a couple weeks ago with the notion that I must mend my prose style by perusing again the sedate pages of Johnson, the ironic epithets of Smollett, & the lively grace of Sterne. All that has resulted is an echoing of their sounds in my empty skull & bent reflections of their kinds of phraseology in current letters to my friends & in this place -- a dismal conclusion to my original plan. In addition (or in diminution, rather) I feel a great lapse of my inventive & authorial powers.


6/VII:65  In rage & panic, hungry, I sold half a dozen books for $2. I’ve eaten almost all of it: The Iliad, a contemporary verse translation with Wedgwood illustrations, THE DESERT MUSIC, JOURNEY TO LOVE, THE 100,000 SONGS (xlations from Milarepa), and a Dante illustrated by George Grosz...


Philip Whalen: from Notebooks (1957-1966), 2009



Dear Tom,

Here is Philip [Whalen's] CLASSICS SHELF (condensed).


When Philip recently moved into a smaller room with better sunlight in the [Hartford Street, San Francisco] Zen Center, it was necessary to reduce his immense library into something more portable. In addition to all of his Buddhist books, he requested the following books be kept as his own portable collection:


Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems
Paperback of Emily Dickinson Collected
Lloyd Reynolds' books
Copies of his own books
Large Print Bible
Copies of Joanne Kyger's books
1 volume edition of Plato
Krazy Kat books
Mountains and Rivers Without End, Gary Snyder
Thomas C. Wolfe, The Story of a Novel
1986 Edited Copy of Finnegans Wake, Random House (confused maybe with printing of Ulysses)
All volumes of Stravinsky's Letters
Edith Sitwell's Collected
Robert Craft's book about Stravinsky
Archie and Mehitabel
Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift
Collected Plays by W. B. Yeats
Selected Robinson Jeffers
Tristram Shandy
Annotated Wasteland in paperback
Humphrey Clinker
Old Collected Poems of W. Carlos Williams, 2 or 3 volumes
All books by Gertrude Stein: paperback of The Making of Americans, Narration, What Are Masterpieces?, Lectures in America
EE Cummings Collected
2 large volumes of Thoreau journal

-- Brit

 
Britton Pyland to TC, 17 October 2006





Notebook entry, Kyoto, 18 October 1967: Philip Whalen (Bancroft Library, U. of California)

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Pages from The Invention of the Letter: A Beastly Morality: Philip Whalen, 1967 (via Steve Silberman)


The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream -- he awoke and found it truth.
 
-- John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817