Westport Legend Bill Nigro Might Finally Defeat Kansas City Liquor Cards

If you've talked to Westport impresario Bill Nigro . . . He might bend your ear about KCMO Liquor Cards which he has labeled "dumb cards" in a decades long crusade to end the pointless requirement.

His argument . . . It prevents quick employment, it's unnecessary taxation and it's redundant given that restaurants are already tasked with performing due diligence on new employees.

Now . . . 

After years of broken promises from politicos and tireless advocacy . . .

It seems that Mr. Nigro might finally be garnering a bit of progress.

And so . . . People who actually live & work in Kansas City should give him credit for an impending legislative move . . . That only took at least a quarter century to accomplish.

Check-it . . .

The KCMO City Council is poised to take up Ordinance No. 230419. If passed, the new law would make life a bit easier for the city's 8,000 bartenders, waiters and waitresses, and other bar and restaurant workers by removing the requirement to obtain a liquor license.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City mulls ending liquor-license requirement for bar, restaurant workers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Employees who handle alcohol at Kansas City, Missouri, bars and restaurants may not need permits in the near future. The KCMO City Council is poised to take up Ordinance No. 230419.