The five-percent commission is not enough to convince them to pursue it. Adding the application process and training requirements for all employees also contribute to them declining to offer the gambling products. Owners of the restaurants say that one reason is that if they offer keno, they must offer all other lottery products. Some of the most well recognized restaurants in the state are going are following Colony Grill’s lead, including the Wood-N-Tap and McLadden’s.
'It would affect the business 180 degrees from what we are now to what it would be with the opportunity to sell keno or lottery products in our establishments.” “Not that anyone from the state was really asking our opinion on it, but for us it’s not a fit,” Ken Martin, co-owner of the Colony Grill Restaurant chain of restaurants said. Keno is coming to Connecticut but whether your hometown restaurant or bar will offer it is still left to be determined.ĭozens of establishments from Fairfield County to the northeast corner of the state tell the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters they’re going to pass on selling the lottery game to their customers.
