Comfort Kitchen is officially issued a Full Liquor License
On August 25 the Boston Licensing Boardapproved our request for a full liquor license for Comfort Kitchen - but only if the board could find one. Two weeks later, we were excited to receive the news that we were officially issued one.
This is essential for our business to be successful. See more below on the importance of having a license, borrowed from our colleague & libations expert @barnoirboston :
Alcohol sales can make up as much as 25% of a restaurants’ revenue. And in Massachusetts, this is specifically referring to an all forms or “full” liquor license.
In a secondary market like ours, where full liquor licenses are extraordinarily difficult to obtain, this results in BIPOC restaurants being unable to tap in to critical profits to maintain their businesses, staff, and the communities they serve.
Though beer and wine licenses may be slightly more attainable, for a standard full service restaurant this still creates a disadvantage in being shut out of cocktail revenue; you’d have to get super creative, which is always dope but definitely gives working twice as hard to get half as far for Black and Brown businesses.
Follow @barnoirboston on Instagram to learn more about their incredible works of writing and mixology centering equity in the beverage industry.
