Niedlov's Bakery & Cafe will begin having weekly pizza, beer and wine nights, but only once a week on Friday nights to start, according to co-owner Erik Zilen.
In making his application, Zilen joked with members of the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board that as a baker who starts his days early, he needed to find time to sleep. Board member Brooke Bradley-King asked if the application was for a weekly, one-day-only application or would it apply any time the business was open.
City attorney Melinda Foster said the application does ask applicants to specify, and Zilen said he would like to have the option in the future to sell beer at other times when the business is open (7 a.m.-6 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays), and the application was amended to reflect that prior to being approved.
"We'll see how this goes," he said.
The application passed unanimously, as did requests to sell beer at Frazier 5 & Dime, a new restaurant in the old Beast & Barrel location on Frazier Avenue, Harrison Tobacco Market at 5914 Highway 58, and the Exxon at 4345 Highway 58.
Frazier 5 & Dime co-owner George Lewallen told the board he and his partners, Dustin Choate, Miguel Morales and Reed Timble, hope to have the place open by the end of April and it will be a "casual fine dining" place. When asked by the board if the four had any experience in the restaurant industry, Lewallen said between the four of them, this was the sixth time they've applied for a beer permit for their various businesses.
Members of the group also have interests in Tremont Tavern, Parkway Pourhouse, Feed Co. Table & Tavern and 1885 Grill.
The board also approved special event applications for the Big 9 Roots Festival this Saturday at The Bessie Smith Cultural Center, Sculpture in the Sky at the Sculpture Fields at Montague Park on April 23 and ConnectHER at the Waterhouse Pavilion in Miller Plaza on April 28.
Near the end of the meeting, board member Chris Keene reminded the applicants it is a city code requirement that they have and use business landlines to call the police to report any disorder. It is an issue that has come up during several beer code violation cases in recent months, he said.
Calandra Smith with the Hamilton Coalition then got up to tell the board she has made the issue a larger part of her training. The coalition is certified by the city to train owners and servers, who are required to get such training unless they receive training from the Tennessee Alcohol Beverage Commission, which supercedes the city's training requirements.
Both Keene and Smith pointed out using a cellphone to call in a disorder does not provide 911 dispatchers a location and does not meet the code requirement.
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