What to Know: For-Profit Clubs & Corporate Dining
This page provides information on the For-Profit Club license, including clubs that operate for Corporate Dining purposes. A For-Profit Club license authorizes alcohol service in a membership-based establishment that is restricted to members and their guests and is not open to the general public. Where a club operates for corporate dining purposes, use of the licensed space is limited to the company’s employees and their clients.
Under law, For-Profit Clubs may be operated exclusively for one or more of the following purposes:
- Recreational
- Social
- Patriotic
- Political
- Benevolent
- Athletic
- Communal Workspace or
- Corporate Dining Space
Applying for a For-Profit or Corporate Dining license requires municipal notification. More information on the notification process can be found here:
More information can be found on the Advisory:
For-Profit Clubs
For-Profit Clubs are open to members and their guests only.
A "member" of a for-profit club shall mean a person who, whether a charter member or admitted in accordance with the club’s by-laws:
- has become a bona fide member thereof,
- maintains membership through the payment of annual dues in a bona fide manner in accordance with the by-laws of the for-profit club, and,
- is listed by name and address on the club’s membership roster.
A for-profit club must have one hundred or more members before a license will be issued.
Corporate Dining/Communal Workspace
A corporate dining license is solely for use as a dining space for a company’s employees and clients.
- The space licensed must be used for corporate dining purposes where food and beverages are regularly available to employees, clients and guests.
- Licensees do not have to meet member requirements.
- Licensees may contract with a third party licensed by the State Liquor Authority to provide food and beverages. The third-party contract must be disclosed during the application process.
- Licensees are responsible for maintaining records, filing all necessary applications, and providing other such documentation required or deemed necessary to be submitted to the authority.