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According to your front page story about the new Eccles Theater having to install a "Zion Ceiling" over the restaurant in the Grand Lobby, the author quotes DABC spokesman, Terry Wood, as saying "under state law, liquor dispensing at new restaurants cannot be readily visible to restaurant patrons."
What I don't understand is why the liquor dispensing has to be blocked to people in the balcony? The people in the balcony aren't restaurant patrons, they are theater patrons. If they were restaurant patrons, they would be in the restaurant, where the Zion Curtain (already installed) would be adequate to do its laughable job.
Sandy Allen Motes
Sandy