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Feb 10, 2009 10:47 pm US/Central

Push To Get Rid Of Drink Specials, Happy Hour

Reporting
Darcy Pohland
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― No more happy hours, no more drinks specials and other restrictions may be coming to a bar near you. The Minneapolis City Council is exploring the regulations as a way to curb binge drinking, especially around college campuses.

Looking at the bars around the University of Minnesota campus, there are daily drink specials posted to lure you inside.

"There's a bar next to my dorm ... on Wednesdays it's Ladies Night and free drinks," said University of Minnesota student Anna Kern.

"Like The Library, everybody goes here because they know they're going to find dollar drinks," said University of Minnesota student Kaitlyn Henry.

Stub and Herbs boasts the longest happy hour on campus.

"Anyway we can pull people in the door for us to keep our business going is a good thing," said Stub and Herbs owner Josh Zavadil.

Finding out a citizens health advisory board is recommending the city do away with drink specials is hard to swallow.

"If they curtail that, that would probably end our business, really," said Zavadil.

"I don't think that my happy hour should suffer due to the fact that other people do drink that much at once," said University of Minnesota student Wesley Jordahl.

Also under consideration, never serving more than one drink to one person at a time. That would mean you couldn't grab one for a friend.

Another recommendation would ban drinking games from bars, like beer pong, where the loser has to slam a drink all at once.

The ideas are all aimed at curbing the growing binge drinking problem.

"Right now it seems like almost everyone goes through a period where they have to figure it out and experiment, and find out where their limits are. And during that period sometimes they have some very detrimental consequences," said Minneapolis City Councilmember Cam Gordon.

Those WCCO spoke with say bar restrictions won't work.

"As college students, you're going to find a way to drink by any means you can, and they'll go elsewhere to find binge drinking resources," said Henry.

Portland, Ore. already has the one drink at a time rule.

Minneapolis is in the process of forming a task force to take a closer look at the recommendations and decide if it should be considered by the city council.

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