RE: CAA: Mutual Help List, Mutual Help List, Governmental Liquor License for Airport Restaurant

["Dinger, Rod" <rdinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard -

We suffered through two restaurant failures until we found a winner.  We always 
felt strongly that the liquor license was an asset to the facility and should 
always remain.  I would not recommend allowing them to sell it.  Perhaps 
restructuring the lease with a lower percentage of gross receipts would be an 
alternative.  You might want to involve local successful operators in the lease 
review process.  We found this very helpful as their input help make the 
agreement more attractive to a potential operator.  This process also helped 
lead us to the current operator who turned things around.

Rod

 -----Original Message-----
From:   RStein@xxxxxxxx [mailto:RStein@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent:   Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:06 AM
To:     help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        CAA: Mutual Help List,  Governmental Liquor License for Airport 
Restaurant

Everyone -

The restaurant at my airport states they're losing money and is looking to
me to do something about it.

One request they've made is for me to permit them to remove the liquor
license from the airport so they can sell the license to recoup the
investment.  (It's presently in the lease that the restaurant is not
allowed to do this).

As part of the request, they're asking the the City (municipally-owned
airport) apply for a governmental liquor license for the airport to be used
in the restaurant operation.  New Mexico State liquor laws permit local
governments to apply for liquor licenses for sales at government owned
facilities.  Our Civic Center already does this.

I have been requested to research if any other airports have been asked to
do this - or if any other airport has a government-owned liquor license,
and how they handle the landlord/tennant relationship.

Richard M. Stein, A.A.E.
Airport Manager
Four Corners Regional Airport
800 Municipal Drive
Farmington, NM  87401-2663
505-599-1394
505-599-1299 fax
rstein@xxxxxxxx


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