ALCOHOL could soon be delivered to your front door with your
pizza order if Domino’s Pizza has its application
for an alcohol licence approved (The application relates to the pizza giant’s store at 5 The Broadway, Newbury.)Newbury town councillors have slammed the plans with its Conservative group leader Tony Stretton (Clay Hill) likening the scheme to “delivering alcohol on a platter” to underage drinkers, at a meeting of its planning and highways committee on Monday night.
Jeff Beck (Con, Clay Hill), said: “We all know the situation you get. An older person will sometimes front a party and the people who are actually consuming the alcohol are under age. There’s totally insufficient protection for the young people of the district. This could potentially be very misused.”
Sarah McGhie, A spokeswoman for Domino’s, said that all staff would be trained on the procedures required when selling alcohol, and would be given a script to follow.
“At the point of sale, if the staff member suspects that they are already intoxicated or have concerns over the customer then they [can] refuse to sell alcohol to them,” she said. “By providing all of this information during the order process, we are limiting the exposure of the driver.”
A decision is due to be made at a meeting of West Berkshire Council’s licensing committee on October 15, in its Market Street offices at 2pm.
What do you think? Would you use the delivery service to purchase alcohol with your food? Are you concerned that it could lead to alcohol being easily obtained by underage drinkers?
A Bicester branch got its approval back in July 2013, that was the second branch, having not been able to source any derogatory news stories regarding this we are assuming that is running well, we have been unable to track down which store was the first.
How would you feel if this was available in your area?
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