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> running a happy hour secretly in his insured bar

Can you explain what this means and why it is a problem? --Confused

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Not OP, but a happy hour is usually a period of time when bars serve discounted drinks and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_hour

It's illegal in several States. It was only made legal here a couple of years ago.

>The reason for each ban varies, but include: to prevent drunk driving, avoid the nuisance to neighbors from loud crowds and public drunkenness, and to discourage unhealthy consumption of a large amount of alcohol in a short time.

I did not realize happy hours were so contentious. Call it the California bubble.

Yeah, it was a big deal when they made it legal here. Bars, restaurants everywhere started doing them like immediately. Now it's rare to find a place that doesn't offer some kind of happy hour special.

Gotta say, I haven't really noticed any of the problems occuring that the wiki article mentions was the reasoning behind most bans myself. Haven't seen any news reports about those things since the laws changed either or anything.

That's a little bit symptomatic of your biases. Laws against happy hours are far more a bible belt thing in reality than a nanny state thing (even if some of the reasons touted publicly are nanny state-ish).

Happy hour is when drinks go on a huge discount for a set time period. You get a lot more seriously drunken people since it encourages binge drinking. I would assume that just carries a higher insurance premium to have one.

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