The board that governs the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services warns it only has a handful of bar licenses to award between November and July.
LGBTQ bar Verse in Salt Lake City aims to open Friday; Sandtrap Cafe in Ogden, hit by a fire, loses its license.
Rayna Olsen, the Sandtrap Cafe’s owner, told the commission that she has been unable to reopen the Ogden bar, because the building is no longer up to code and the city removed all the power meters, so there’s no electricity in the building. She said she has a five-year lease on the property, and has hired an electrician and consulted with Rocky Mountain Power.
Orton added that “all of us are heartbroken for you, … I feel like our hands are tied by the statute, but not only by the statute. Our hands are tied by lack of information and communication. We have to make this decision at this moment. We don’t even have the option to wait statutorily to see how things are going pan out.”
“We’ve jumped hurdle after hurdle, and met timeline after timeline,” Rapp said. “We met those obstacles head-on, and met them ethically and above-board. We didn’t cut any corners.”While Verse left Tuesday’s commission meeting with its license, 10 other businesses on the board’s agenda were left waiting.
George Cardon-Bystry and Charlie Cardon, from the private social club Edison House, said they would be ready to open on Nov. 9, with an occupancy permit and a business license in place on Nov. 8. Cardon said a seasonal license would not work for them, because they operate on a membership model. “We’ve had four soft openings up to this point,” he said. “In addition to just serving alcohol, we’re creating a destination.”
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