GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — You may soon be able to get your favorite cocktails to-go at restaurants and bars throughout the state.
That would be legal if a bill passed this week in the Wisconsin Senate becomes law. Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain says he isn’t necessarily worried about an increase in drunk driving as a result.
“If people are doing the right thing and then businesses are providing the right seals, this should not be an issue for us,” Delain said Thursday.
Open container laws still apply.
“If the business is going to sell a cocktail there will be that tamper-evident seal on it,” Delain told WTAQ. “So we would know whether or not it’s been opened.”
The bill does require that restaurants and bars offer to-go cocktails in such tamper evident sealed containers.
Green Bay Police Commander Kevin Warych says they’re going to keep doing what they’ve always done.
“At the Green Bay Police Department, we enforce the law,” Warych said. “So whatever the lawmakers propose and gets passed we will enforce.”
The cocktails-to-go idea came about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in curbside pickup dining.
