2018-02-01 Liquor Commission Minutes

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Licensee Thomas T. Kadota, Ltd., dba Kadota Liquors, located at 194 Hualalai Street, Hilo, Hawaii, for delivery within the Hilo area on a trial basis. Nahale-a: Move to approve. Takaba: Second. Ms. Nahale-a moved to approve the request for approval for third -party delivery service for Licensee Thomas T. Kadota, Ltd., dba Kadota Liquors, located at 194 Hualalai Street, Hilo, Hawaii, submitted by Express Waiters, LLC, dba Express Waiters, located at 56 Kaapuni Loop, Hilo, Hawaii; seconded by Mr. Takaba. Taniguchi: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? I have a question. These people are the ones that do the delivery of food, right? Takase: Yes. Taniguchi: Kadota Liquors will take the order for the food and Kadota will deliver the liquor? Is that what it is? Takase: They are going to deliver liquor for Kadota Liquors. You can buy the food from whatever restaurants they are partnered with. If you want liquor, you can put in an order through Kadota's and they will deliver that, too. We do have some liquor delivery services, but right now, the rest of them are in conjunction with their stores. In other words, the stores themselves are delivering directly. This is a little bit of a change. This is a third -party actually delivering for Kadota's rather than Kadota's delivering themselves. We met with these people a couple of times and I don't see the difference in operation. We're asking them to try out this new ID checking software that we, as a Department had been looking at. It's a mobile app. so they can get it on their phone and it's pretty accurate. The only part that the person has to do is make sure the ID matches the face on the ID. This mobile app. will read the card and it's 99 percent accurate. We can't say 100 percent, but we haven't been able to trip it up yet. It seems pretty good. It's a local business starting out and I wanted to help them out because I'm starting to get other applications from national businesses that want to start doing this. For those of you who have attended national conferences, you see the other entities out there like Drizly, starting to provide a delivery service like a FedEx of local delivery. It's coming. This is a test run and we've talked with them enough that they understand and Kadota understands they will still have to follow the same procedures that any other Licensee that delivers has. They'll have to pre -register at Kadota's and they will develop a registry of people they can deliver to. They may extend it, and that's why we're testing this software because they may take orders from hotels where they are not pre -registered. That's why I'm telling them if they can get this software, and you can check them, then maybe we will accept that. That's a little bit of a change. That's why FEBRUARY1, 2018 -LIQUOR COMMISSION MINUTES 27