Tuesday, January 28, 2025–10:45 a.m.
-David Crowder, WRGA News-
The Rome City Commission is set to vote on two alcohol ordinance amendments during their February 10 meeting.
The first deals with variances for Rome’s 50-50 food-to-drink ratio, according to Rome City Clerk Joe Smith.
“Basically this ordinance, if adopted, would prohibit the option for any future food-to-drrink ratio variances,” he said. “It would also address the existing food-to-drink ratio variances and allow those to continue as they are with their current variance. It would allow those businesses to be transferred to a new licensee, sold, or moved to a new location. So basically, they could carry on as they are, but no future variances.”
The second ordinance amendment deals with food trucks.
“This ordinance, as proposed, would allow establishments to continue to have on-site food trucks, and those sales could continue to count towards the food/drink ratio with two qualifications,” Smith said. “The first being that those food truck sales would need to flow through the establishment’s cash register/point of sales system and secondly, that the food trucks would be supplemental to an existing brick and motor kitchen that is operational.”
Both ordinances were placed onto First Reading during the city commission’s Monday night meeting.
