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--- ---- rn-�T-�:..-�_,q0 1': �, <br />'. � ^ .. ��'r <br />, � <br />� <br />%, <br />I[�: �- I l'r i.-iF EI�E�FTT TH Nn: �nF, ?5q-,g7?� <br />, 12591� Fl:�, � <br />?�rr;��i'Ox�NAIIni <br />�'U: Ror, Cirebory <br />I'HQi4T; 17pug Purcell <br />DAT�: Octobcr 26, 1940 <br />R�%: "Drir.king Est;,blishmcrt" <br />The City of Evere(t has atte�npled to impose some additional requirements on the. Olivr <br />Garden Restaurant building rCSulting from a reference in lhP Fver��tt fiuilding Cocle to "drink:��g <br />establishment," <br />The questi�n is wheiher thc Oli��e Garden Restaurznt constitutes a"drinkin� <br />es�ablishment." <br />The simpie answer appears lo be th„t the Olive Garden 15 not a drinking ec�ahtishment. <br />��'e ha��e done a Com�?utcT run Un �vOrds drin�ing establishment tt�roughout the State <br />Couris of the U�titcd States as a�cll as research tlte law of the State of Washington, From a <br />seatutory po(nt of vlew, there appea; to be three separatc kinds of r�ferences: "eating and <br />dnnking establishments," "eating and/or drin}:ing est;blishments" "eatin� establish;T:ents" and <br />°drinkin� establishments." <br />When usei scpasately, the phrase "drinking establistunent" appe,�rs to refer ���. hat u�c <br />would ordina�rily think of as a tavem �r bar, T wpuad partiCulzrly notc th� refe ';> >1r <br />v The Colorado Sprine� rmm�anv gg� p,2d 13 (COlorado 1963) to "salpons or ;;;;:;; drin}ar.g <br />establishme�rts ,..." W�11ac.e v Shoreh m iot 1 n or^ � n, 49 A,2d 81 (D,C. 19;6) "a <br />s1. � __g S._Tp_. t�_ <br /><lrirkin� est�blishment, whelher called cocktail lnun�e, bar, s�loon or some other na.me ,,,." <br />Ttic Supreme Court of the State uf \'Vashington has r�eently addi•essed thr, qucsGon <br />some��vhat more directly in Tii�h 5tar Inc v+�uor Control Board, 106 Wn.2d 4S5 (l9$6), <br />That case im�olved a question as tn whether the X�iquor �oard had prope:ly revoked a p�rticuiu <br />escablishments' Ciass H Liquor License. Tht basis for the revocatiu„ was a violatlon of certain <br />regulations �vhxch retluired tha� a cortain percentages of gross revenueS be attributable to f0pd <br />s�1es, The coutt recited the history of the regulation of alcohollc consumption in the St�te of <br />Washington since the repeal of prohibition, The two primat'y actions a�etd the 5feele Ar.t in <br />1933 and the adoption of Initiative 171 by the etectorate in 1945. The Stecle Acl established <br />the liquor store bettie sale strucfure and Initiative 171 established Iho sale by the drink po�vcrs <br />and ptovisions, <br />