Feel like getting a pizza and a six-pack of beer, but don't feel like leaving the house? Well, if you live in Amarillo, all you have to do is call the Pizza Hut on Coulter at Hillside. They'll be happy to deliver both to your front door (don't forget the tip).
Now you may be asking yourself, as I did, "Is home delivery of beer even legal in Texas?" It turns out that it is, according to the TABC -- as long as a couple of rules are followed. The delivery driver must be eighteen, the person who receives and pays for it must be twenty-one, and it can only be delivered to a "wet" city (a city where the sale of alcohol is permitted).
According to the marketing director of Pizza Hut, Ashlie Marquez, this is the only Pizza Hut in the country that is delivering beer. She said, "Right now, this is our only test store. We're going to see how it works and how the community in Amarillo responds to that service, and go from there."
I'm shocked that Amarillo is being used as the test city, but I'll bet it proves to be very successful. It probably won't be long before a lot of Pizza Huts are doing the same.
We got an ad in the mail for this, and when I showed it to my stepdaughter, her first question was, "How are they going to know if the person's 21 when they take the order?" (She's 23 and living with us, along with her daughter, until her husband finishes his tour in Iraq.)
ReplyDeleteThis problem is compounded by having delivery drivers as young as 18. Will eighteen-year-olds be carding twenty-somethings? How do you think that's going to work out? Is the 18-year-old driver going to take the beer back to the store if the folks who ordered it don't show proof of age?
When I lived in Germany, where the drinking age is 16, beer was sold at McDonald's and nobody thought anything of it. There's nothing like washing down a Big Mac and fries with a beer!
As we used to say back then, "Andere Länder, andere Sitten" (Different countries, different customs).
Because it Pizza Hut was smart they would carry a TABC scanner that scans drivers license proving that the person is 21.This is the best way to ensure the customer gets the alcohol they need and that they are surely 21 TABC Would be more than happy to revise all scanners and a low-cost.This will ensure that you will not have any losses or arrests in this manner.
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