DeKalb County GA last call change

Interesting potential but alas I'm a day shift guy when I get to go.

Damn so the club will close at 2 or just no alcohol after 2?

I have to wonder if this will affect any of the clubs. Who governs the strip clubs, the city they are in or the county they are. I don't think there are any strip clubs left that aren't within some city's limits.

Like others, it won't affect me either. I'm a day guy.

As I suspected it will not be a factor.

localalcohollaws.com

This is a trend happening across the country. Turning back last call, and in most cases “last call” means the establishment (whether a bar, restaurant serving alcohol or strip club) has to close as well.

DUIs and late night shenanigans are the main reasoning. Close to where I live, a University is pushing the locals to push their last call back (from 2am to midnight) to curtail college binge drinking. I can’t see midnight happening, city gets too much revenue and like most other places, DUIs are a big business.

According to Shadow's research, Chamblee (Follies, I think) is already 3am. Doraville (Oasis) is already 2am, but I know the club is open to 4am. Will have to ask my bartender friend the next time I am there.

I guess liquor laws are one of the first things these micro-cities want to have control over.

I believe the city or most local of the jurisdictions has closing/enforcement say so.

South FL is made up the 3-counties (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach) - Miami-Dade and Palm Beach clubs are allowed to stay open late and sell alcohol till 5 am - w.r.t. Broward, the clubs in the southern-end of the county (Hallandale) are also allowed to stay open late and sell alcohol till 5 am, but the clubs in the northern-end of the county (Pompano) can only stay open/sell alcohol till 2 am.

When I lived in the North-Texas/Dallas area, it seemed all clubs had to stop selling alcohol at 2:00 a.m. no matter which city they were-in (IDK if it was a county/state thing or if every single city decided on a 2 am no-alcohol time?) - the BYOB places would stay open later (4 am) and at least one Dallas club I knew (Club Onyx) was an alcohol club that would stop selling at 2 a.m. but would stay open till 4 am - I assume the alcohol clubs can stay open past 2 am but since they can't sell liquor they probably see-it as not worth it to them.

I think a 2 am closing time causes more accidents than a later closing time - when I lived/SCed in Dallas, the roads would often be jam-packed b/w 2 and 3 a.m. w/ everyone leaving nightclubs, bars, SCs, etc, all at the same-time, thus more drunks on the road all at the same time - the worst accidents I've witnessed were b/w 2 and 3 am on Fr/Sat nights while I lived in Dallas.

there was a club in Broward county that used to stay open till 4 am, but about a year+ ago the city forced them to start closing at 2 am like the other establishments in the city of Pompano - for w/e reason they were able to have some type of exception for a # of years but it was taken away a year+ ago - it did seem to affect biz overall and def b/w 2 and 4 am when most other alcohol places had to close and this club would get packed (particularly Fr and Sat eves b/w 2 and 4 am) - but there are other popular SCs in Pompano w/ a 2 am closing time that have very healthy attendance and are very popular - i.e. a good club will still have a good clientele even w/ an earlier closing time - and yeah, IME earlier-closing clubs often get going earlier w/ most of the dancers arriving earlier either b/c the club enforces a minimum # of hours per shift or the girls needing X # of hours to make the $$$ they want - in SoFlo a 2 am closing club has a good vibe by 9 pm and in full-swing by 10 pm - late-closing SoFlo clubs kinda get-going by 11 pm and in full-swing by midnight.