The city of Piedmont has to decide if it will or will not allow a “brown bag” policy to continue within the city limits. If “brown bagging” is allowed it would mean a customer could bring their own adult beverages to the restaurant, which doesn’t serve alcohol, to consume while having a meal.

Kevin Cunningham, one of the owners of Pinhoti Pizza Company, spoke in favor of continuing to allow customers to be able to bring their own adult beverages to a restaurant that doesn’t serve them already. Mr. Cunningham made reference to other cities that allow area restaurants to brown bag and how much success they are having with no issue.

There was much discussion on the impact of allowing brown bagging to continue. Questions of liability were raised and discussed. Council member Terry Kiser made a motion that the issue be tabled for now until more information was available and more discussion could take place.