Los Campos is moving

[Mykul]

Thanks Colleen. Believe me when I say we appreciate all of the support from the community we have received.

My frustration stems from a general unwillingness to help us along by the local govt people. We spent 4 months preparing paperwork to apply for our liquor license on Alonso. It was only once we spent 12 weeks compiling all of that and submitted the application that someone looked closely and chose to inform us that our landlord did not actually own the house.
Once we moved our new landlord went with us to see the same person with a valid license in hand and ask if we could please use it while we went through the process to transfer it to our address. Nope. This fellow knew our entire story and simply would do nothing to expedite the process or help in any way. This happening when I know of at least one other restaurant 3 blocks from ours that has been operating with a full wine list without any license for two years because the operator has family in the government.

We have made a point of supporting the local economy and paying local folks a fair wage and it is disappointing when you realize that at the government level they are just as happy to send you spinning in circles from one office to the next and watch you slowly go out of business than support or assist you in any way.

I apologize for the ranting. It has been a trying week.

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We looked into the beer company license, from what I can tell that seems to be a pretty dead practice, and it basically takes the same amount of time as you still have to go through the entire process of having municipal approval.

Once you got the approval the beer companies would pay for a portion or all of the license fee in exchange for exclusivity. Apparently they also used to keep a handful of licenses and just transfer them from one place to another, but again, that doesn't appear to be an option anymore.

We are going to transfer the license our landlord has from another address to this one. I expect that will be another 3-4 months and if for some reason that does not work I am afraid we may just have to call it a day and go elsewhere.