Restaurant Owners Upset With Liquor Discount

Ontario’s restaurant owners want the province’s liquor agency to give them the same deep discounts it gives to diplomats.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has started giving foreign embassies and consulates a 49% discount on beer,
wine and liquor prices.
A so-called “embassy” discount, which also applies to federal government purchases, was already in place, but the agency made its products even cheaper for this group in June.
A group representing Ontario’s restaurants says the new discounts are unfair when they have to pay full retail prices for alcohol.
In an open letter to the liquor board, Joyce Reynolds of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association calls the agency’s pricing scheme an “insult” to hard-working business owners.
The L-C-B-O says it must offer discounts for foreign embassies under a federal law, the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act as well as under the Vienna Convention of 1961.