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Southfield, MI 48075 . •=5ettin95118ht, 505 tie night Luncheon 11art1; Aprn Fiors d'Oeuvres4p41-7pm Dinner 5Prbilitini Friday 8( SatuMaystil Midnight Cocktails'til 2am Reservations, accepted 0642-2430 • • 30100 Telegraph (north. of 12 mile, next to Jacques restaurant) • Breakfast Foods • A Complete Salad Bar • Plus An Incredible Dessert Table and More SOUTHFIELD HILTON MYSTERY liquor licenses no longer in use THE is like getting a $100,000 gift. MUNCHER WRITES "State Senator Jack Faxon (D- The state is an unwilling . part- Southfield) has taken up the ner to. larceny when a restau- cudgel to allow the Liquor Con- rant owner who paid $25 to . trol Commission to issue a apply for a licnse goes out of limited number of tavern (beer business and reaps a profit of and wine sales) licenses on the $100,000 for selling the permit. • "These licenses ought to go basis of a community's need rather than on the archaic basis back to the city so more would of a full-time resident popula- be available for the smaller guy who can't afford the hefty in- tion. "Faxon's bill was approved by vestment. "Many small restaurants, the Senate back in June of last year, and is still being battered such as delicatessens and Italian around by the House. The latest dining spots, would be happy word is that the measure has with a permit to sell beer and been tacked on to another piece wine. Like it or not, liquor, beer of legislation related to country and wine are big drawing cards club licenses to sell the hard for many diners who can take their business to places that stuff. "Like gold diggers who rushed serve beverages with a kick. "The hold-up in the House is a to California in 1849 in search of the mother lode, small re- strong lobby-of big-time re- staurateurs stalk the few preci- staurateurs who don't cotton to ous -Class C licenses to sell broadening the competition. Then there are those in and out liquor by the glass. "Many communities have used of public office who don't cotton up their quotas of liquor licenses to tippling of any kind. "One argument by small re- granted on a ratio of one license staurateurs is that biggies can for every 1,500 residents. "The population is counted on more easily afford to, spend every ten years so there will be bucks for a resort license. Small no adjustments until the 1990 businesses make up, the fabric of census. Faxon's bill will make the economy and employ more some licenses available so full- persons in total than do large service restaurants can add beer businesses. Yet the 'mama and papa' eateries are penalized." and wine to their menus. ENCORE DELICATESSEN, - "Often a community which has used up most of its quota of seating 140 in West Bloomfield licenses will retain one or two in Plaza, is expected to open before the hopes of enticing a new end of this month . . . The former never-opened Pribichuk business to locate there. "If a business is part of a is owned by Michael Zuckman large chain, it would have no and cousin David Mintz. SHIRL HARRIS WRITES trouble affording the cost of an already-issued license. The same ... "The Birmingham Theatre's production of Neil Simon's goes for posh dining spots. "An already-existing restau- Brighton Beach Memoirs opens a rant, struggling to survive in a five-week engagement Friday, very competitve market,' is in Jan. 24 through Sunday, Feb. rough shape. It has little bar- .23. . Brighton Beach Memoirs, the gaining power to convince the community to give up its last first play in a trilogy by Neil Simon, introduCes us to the licenses. "The bill is designed to solve Jerome Family in,Brooklyn dur- that dilemma by limiting eligi- ing the, Depression days of 1937. "Fifteen-year-old Eugene, who bility to restaurants which have be a been operating for at least six hasn't decided,wliether months. The bill would only ballplayer- or a writer, keeps a authorize up to 50 new' tavern diary, his memoirs, in case he licenses per year for four years. doesn't make ; the major. leagues. Class C license quotas , are He comments on the state of the based on the old days When world, his family, the New York folks walkedlo neighborhood sa- Yankees and sex -- not neces- loons. - sarily in that order nor with "The old corner bar has been equal enthusiasm. ' "The family — mother, father replaced for the• most part by restaurants to which customers and brother, along with a from a broader area drive to. widowed aunt and her two And many diners expect a little daughters— experiences the daily crises that 'faced depres- hard stuff with their meals. "It's, an economic fact that'resr sion era families; and closely re- taurants 'can't compete Without sembles what 'Neil 'Simon re- , some form of spirits. Too' many members as his youth. small eateries make thesnkistake "Critics hail Brighton Beach of serving wine and 'even after- Memoirs as Neil Simon's best dinner drinks in- coffee- cups to play, a imaslihit,'a classic. entice customers to their spirit- ,"It won both the New York less reitaurant. Drama Critics Circle and the "What's even .worse is watch- Outer Critics Circle Awards for ing some imbibers brazenly ex- 1983." THE UNIQUE ' "trading" of hibit a well-stocked portable bar with a full -choice of liqUor in a two area restaurants last month restaurant without a license. has resulted in Oliverip's now ,The restaurateur who takes opekating in West Bloomfield these chances is jeopardizing his i and The Aristocrat planning to opportunity , to be issued a liquor opei* mid-February in Bloom- license if and when they become 1 field Hills. available. 1,, Dr. Avelina Laxa, owner of ,"Keeping yaluable scarce The Aristocrat, says that she • R E ''S 1 AU , R A 8, A R I A WO. • F, hen , • burrosairatromm, 1144 ,144,44.44144 ■ 441,414