Showerthought: Now that the Park Avenue Starbucks Will Be Serving Beer and Wine…

This morning I heard that the Park Avenue Starbucks will start selling wine and beer and wondered what that meant for our other local coffee shops. Would they try to follow suit?

It’s not a cheap or easy task… as you have to apply for a liquor license, have 70% of sales be from food (maybe including coffee), and build a Zion curtain. Given that, it may be too high of a hurdle.

Yet, at one coffee shop it would make a lot of sense… Hugo’s at the Visitor Center.

A Visitor’s Center that sells wine and beer? Now, that would give people a reason to stop… and visitors would realize they aren’t in Salt Lake City anymore.