By Drink (Restaurants and Bars)
Beer By the Drink License (Beer - Includes Sunday Sales)
This license allows retailers to serve beer by the drink for consumption on the licensed premises. This license allows retailers to operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. every day of the week.
- Fee - $50
- Statute 311.200.3
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
Beer and Light Wine By Drink
This license allows retailers to serve beer and light wine by the drink for consumption on the licensed premises. This license allows retailers to operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, including all election days.
- Fee - $50
- Statute 311.200.4
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
Retail By the Drink License (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
This license allows retailers to serve intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the licensed premises. This license allows retailer to operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, including all election days.
- Fee - $300
- Statute 311.200.5
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
Retail By the Drink License (Spirits, Wine and Beer) Tax Exempt
This license allows retailers to serve intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the licensed premises. This license allows retailer to operate between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, including all election days.
- Fee - $300
- Statute 311.090
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
- Additional Requirements - Requires applicant applying for tax exempt organization to provide a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department exempting the organization from taxes under 501(C)(3), 501(C)(4), 501(C)(5), 501(C)(7), 501(C)(8), 501(C)(10), 501(C)(19), or 501(D); and a copy of the applicant's charter, if chartered by a national organization.
- Checklist for Retail By The Drink License Tax Exempt.
Retail Liquor By the Drink Resort License (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
This allows licensee to qualify for a license to sell all intoxicating liquor (including spirits, wine and beer) by the drink for consumption on the premises in unincorporated areas that do not allow by the drink sales. Must meet certain extra requirements to qualify for this license.
Requires applicant applying as a resort to have a restaurant on premises and at least 30 overnight guest rooms and 60 percent of the gross income from food sales, or an applicant not having overnight guest rooms must qualify under the restaurant requirements with minimum annual gross sales of $75,000, of which $50,000 must come from nonalcoholic sales.
- Fee – $300
- Statute 311.095
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
Retail Liquor by the Drink Resort Temporary License (Spirits, Wine and Beer - 90 days)
This temporary license allows retailers to serve all alcoholic beverages (including spirits, wine and beer) by the drink for consumption on the premises in cities or counties that do not allow by drink sales. Applicants qualifying for Temporary 90 Day Resort licenses shall furnish with their application a certified statement projecting annual gross receipts of not less than $75,000 per year with at least $50,000 of such receipts from nonalcoholic sales.
- Fee – $75
- Statute 311.095.4
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Retail by Drink Seasonal Resort License (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
This allows retailers to serve all alcoholic beverages (including spirits, wine and beer) by the drink for consumption on the premises in cities or counties that do not allow by drink sales. You must be able to qualify for this license under certain special provisions as indicated below.
- Fee – $25 per month
- Statute 311.095.2
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
- Additional Information Required - Requires applicant applying as a seasonal resort to furnish with their application a certified statement certifying that the establishments open for business eight or fewer consecutive months in any calendar year and that at least 50 percent of all gross sales of the restaurant establishment for the past one year immediately preceding its application for a license was from the sale of prepared meals.
- Seasonal Resort ‘Renewal’ Checklist
- Certification for Seasonal Resort
- Checklist for Retail by Drink Seasonal Resort License.
- Verification of Food and Alcohol Sales/Schedule of Groos Receipts
Retail by the Drink Seasonal Resort Temporary License (Spirits, Wine and Beer - 90 days)
This license allows retailers to serve all alcoholic beverages (including spirits, wine and beer) by the drink for consumption on the premises in cities or counties that do not allow by drink sales. You must be able to qualify for this license under certain special provisions as indicated below.
- Fee – $75
- Statute 311.095
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license- see Sunday licensing options
- Other Secondary Licenses
Required Documents
- Additional Information Required - Requires applicant applying for a temporary seasonal resort license to furnish with their application a certified statement that the establishment is a new Seasonal Resort restaurant having been in operation for less than 12 weeks and is open for business eight or fewer consecutive months in any calendar year and showing a projection for annualized gross sales of which 50 percent shall be from sales of prepared meals.
- Certification for Temporary Seasonal Resort
- Checklist for Retail by the Drink Seasonal Resort Temporary License - 90 days
(Please contact your local district office if you have questions). - Application to Upgrade Temporary Resort / Seasonal Resort License
Missouri Produced Wine by the Drink
Required Documents
- Additional Information Requested - Requires applicant applying for this license to furnish with the application a statement signed by the applicant that 75 percent or more of the intoxicating liquor sold shall be Missouri produced wines.
- Checklist for Missouri Produced Wine by the Drink.
A Missouri Produced Wine by the Drink license allows for a seven-day by the drink license. In order to qualify for this license, retailers must provide certification that 75 percent or more of the intoxicating liquor sold shall be Missouri produced wines.
Hours of Operation - Such premises may remain open between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and midnight, Monday through Saturday, and between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. on Sundays.
- Fee - $300
- Statute 311.070.12
- Other Secondary Licenses
Retail by Drink Boat License (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
Required Documents
- Additional Information Requested - Requires applicant applying for this license to furnish with their application a copy of their license or certificate issued by the U.S. Coast Guard authorizing said boat or vessel for hire to carry 30 or more passengers.
- Checklist for Retail by Drink Boat License.
This license allows retailers who have a boat or vessel that has been certified by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry 30 or more passengers for hire to apply for a license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail for consumption on the boat.
- Fee - $300
- Statute 311.091
Retail By Drink License Entertainment District - Kansas City (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
Required Documents
- Checklist for Retail By Drink License Entertainment District - Kansas City district office (Please contact your Kansas City district office if you have questions).
CITY OF KANSAS CITY ONLY LICENSE -
- Fee – $300
- Statute 311.086
- Other Secondary Licenses
Retail By Drink License Entertainment District - City of Lake Ozark (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
Required Documents
- Checklist for Retail By Drink License Entertainment District - Jefferson City district office (Please contact your Jefferson City district office if you have questions).
CITY OF LAKE OZARK ONLY LICENSE -
- Fee – $300
- Statute 311.084
- Other Secondary Licenses
Railroad by Drink License (Spirits, Wine and Beer)
Required Documents
- Additional Requirements - A duplicate license is required to be posted in every car where intoxicating liquor is sold or served. The licensee shall pay a fee of $1.00 for each duplicate license required.
- Checklist for Railroad by Drink License.
This license may be issued to any railroad company or railway sleeping car company operated in Missouri to sell intoxicating liquor at retail for consumption in its dining cars, buffet cars and observation cars.
- Fee – $100
- Statute 311.200.6
Retail by Drink - Mall License (Common Eating and Drinking Areas - Spirits, Wine and Beer)
Required Documents
- Additional Requirements - Must provide a copy of lease indicating permission for common eating and drinking areas and a statement showing annual food sales of $275,000 or more.
- Checklist for Retail by Drink - Mall License
(Please contact your local district office if you have questions). - Schedule of Annual Food Sales
This is a license to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink at retail not for consumption on the premises where sold, but for consumption in a common eating and drinking area within a building or group of buildings which do not provide areas within their premises for consumption of food and liquor, where the annual gross income from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed in such common eating and drinking area is, or is projected to be, at least $275,000.
- Fee – $300
- Statute 311.096
- In order to operate on a Sunday you must obtain a Sunday license - see Sunday licensing options.
- Other Secondary Licenses
State Fair Licenses
Required Documents
- Additional Licensing Requirements - Copy of letter of approval from the director of the Missouri State Fair.
- Checklist for State Fair Licenses.
Any person holding a concessionaire's contract, issued by the Missouri State Fair, which authorizes the sale of malt liquor and Missouri-produced wines, for consumption on the premises where sold, on the Missouri state fairgrounds and, in the case of Missouri-produced wines, in the original package, on each day of the week within any period which has been approved by the director of the fair and during the hours at which such malt liquor or wine may lawfully be sold or served upon licensed premises to sell malt liquor or wine for on-premises consumption in the city in which the Missouri State Fair is located.
State Fair Beer by Drink and Domestic Wine and State Fair Beer by Drink and Domestic Wine Exhibition/Grandstand
These are annual licenses effective for the 14 day period when the fair is held and for any additional periods of time approved by the director of the fair.
- Fee - $100 (State Fair Beer by Drink and Domestic Wine)
- Fee - 300 (State Fair Beer by Drink and Domestic Wine Exhibition/Grandstand)
- Statute 311.487