Tom Sponseller

Tom Sponseller
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If they've got problems with bad bars, there are ways to close them. All you've got to do is send law enforcement in one night and find somebody drinking underage. Three or four of those, and the guy's lost his license. Why make everybody pay for a couple of bad apples?
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Back in the 1970s, when South Carolina and about nine other states also used them, they only could hold 1.5 ounces. When the liquor industry went metric in the '80s, they went to 1.7 ounces.
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It's a new day. Our customers have told us for years that they'd like to see real drinks normal cocktails that they were accustomed to everywhere else in the U.S.
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They don't have to have sprinklers or smoke detectors. The health department does not inspect their kitchens. If they (bed and breakfasts) aren't good at what they do, something could go wrong, and it could be a black eye on the community.
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Now, the economy will be stronger in the summer statewide.
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If other states pass the right form of the bill, it's pushing people to us. It would subject South Carolina restaurants to something nobody else has to do.
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We'd rather see the bill die than see it pass as is. We're better off without a law.