Happy Hour Might Be Coming Back to Massachusetts
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Massachusetts is one of only a handful of states that prohibits restaurants from offering happy hour drink specials to lure in customers. State Senator Julian Cyr is on a mission to change that.
A Democrat whose district includes Cape Cod and Nantucket, Cyr earlier this year filed his third attempt to overturn Massachusetts’ more than 40-year-old ban on happy hours. The policy, he says, is outdated and undermines efforts to draw people back to downtowns diminished by the pandemic and the persistence of remote work.