CLEVELAND — Drinking spiked dramatically during the stress-filled coronavirus pandemic, but now, years removed from that global health crisis, national and statewide trends reveal that alcohol consumption is on the decline.
State liquor sales support that trend, and a Cleveland restaurateur says patrons have changed their approach to how they socialize since the pandemic in line with that change.
“There was definitely a whole paradigm shift during the pandemic with everybody on lockdown,” said Sam McNulty, co-founder and owner of Market Garden Brewery and six other establishments in Cleveland…