WNY Chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association

06/15/2026

06/11/2026

Starting June 11th across New York State, and for the duration of the 2026 World Cup, bars and restaurants may sell or offer alcoholic beverages until 4 AM! 🍻⚽️

🖊️The change doesn't apply where the SLA has imposed more restrictive hours as a condition of a license.

More information can be found here: https://sla.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-legislation-extending-hours-bars-and-restaurants-during-2026-fifa-world

06/02/2026

A huge thank you for all that joined us at our golf tournament yesterday, golfers, vendors and our sponsors!!! Thanks for supporting culinary and hospitality scholarships! WNY Chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association.

05/22/2026

This is just one of the reasons you should be supporting your trade association, New York State Restaurant Association! Always working hard and advocating for you and your business. We are stronger in numbers!!

Who makes up our membership?
· Full service restaurants
· Take away restaurants
· Fast food restaurants
· Breweries
· Pizzerias
· Bakeries
· Pubs
· Taverns
· Fine dining
· Diners
· Coffee shops
· Wine bars
· Groves
· Country club
· Banquet halls and more.

If your establishment is serving food and or drink, let’s get you a seat at our table today, and start benefiting from everything we offer our members! Contact me, Maria MacPeek, today, call or text (716) 998-2956 or via email at [email protected]

One of the Restaurant Association’s legislative priorities for this year was to see language passed that would give the State Liquor Authority oversight on the fees liquor wholesalers charge their customers. Over recent years, these fees have exploded, costing restaurants thousands of extra dollars. With the industry staring down a rocky economy, we need all the help we can get, and we are happy to report that all of our hard work has paid off!

Both the Assembly and Senate will pass a budget bill today that calls for the immediate elimination of attorney and breakage fees charged by wholesalers, while also allowing the State Liquor Authority to impose monetary limits on all other fees. This is great news for our industry and a win for all of our members who sell alcohol.

Below is the statement that we released to the media on the passage of this bill:

"We want to thank the Governor, the Senate, and the Assembly, Senator James Skoufis, Assemblyman Al Stirpe, and the New York State Liquor Authority for recognizing the challenges the restaurant industry is facing and enacting impactful measures that will bring our members real relief. We have long advocated for leveling the playing field between monopolistic liquor wholesalers and their restaurant customers.

And these changes do just that. For too long, the wholesalers have held us over a proverbial barrel with exorbitant fees, and we have had no recourse. There is no competition. We have to buy our alcohol from these two companies, and they’ve taken advantage of that protection. By reining in the fees, the entire hospitality industry will benefit."

05/03/2026

04/28/2026

Reminder! For the time being, if you don't have pennies in your cash register, you must round down.

ex. Amount Due = $15.98, New Amount Due + $15.95

If you have questions, shoot us a DM!