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Section 3-101 Qualifying conditions.

No application for any license hereunder shall be granted unless the following conditions are met:

(1) Licenses shall be granted only to private clubs or restaurants which may include lounges operated in conjunction with such restaurants.

(2) All restaurants applying for or having pouring licenses must, in addition to all other requirements relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink, meet and maintain the following requirements:

a. Meet all health and sanitation requirements set forth for food service establishments by the city, state and federal government.

b. Must have installed and operative cooking facilities and kitchen equipment for accommodating the demands of sixty (60) food customers.

c. Must have a complete place setting of metal cutlery and china dishes in regular use for each of sixty (60) food customers.

d. Must have seating, at booths or tables designed for food service, sufficient for at least sixty (60) persons, and such booths or tables shall be large enough to accommodate at least two (2) place settings of metal cutlery and china dishes.

e. Such a restaurant as contemplated by this section shall be, at all times during the hours set forth in subsection (2)f., prepared to serve full-course meals with a substantial variety of culinary choices, or substantial substitutes therefor, and shall print and maintain a complete menu of same and furnish such printed menu to each food customer, with prices which are competitive with other restaurants within the city, whether or not those restaurants engage in the business of pouring mixed drinks.

f. All foods listed on the required printed menu or substantial substitutes therefor must be available at any time when mixed drinks are sold or served; provided, however, that a restaurant shall not be required to serve food after 10:00 p.m., and mixed drinks shall not be sold or served at any time not allowed by this chapter. A restaurant as contemplated by this chapter shall be open for business at least five (5) days a week, with the exception of holidays, vacations, and periods of redecorating. The hours for serving of food may be prolonged, but in no event shall mixed drinks be sold or served at any time not allowed by this chapter.

(3) The gross square footage of the dining area, lounge area, serving area, kitchen, restrooms and storage rooms of any restaurant business, other than private clubs, licensed hereunder must be a minimum of two thousand (2,000) square feet. Parking requirements for restaurants licensed hereunder shall be the same as those required in the present ordinances of the city, except that existing restaurants and noncon-forming structures will be exempt from such requirements.

(Code 1958, 5-38(e); Ord. of 11-13-89, I)