California expands lounge licensing — 40 new AB 1775 permits in Q2

The short version: regulators approved another wave of consumption-lounge permits, and the pattern is clear — food service and entertainment licensing are moving from exception to expectation.

Operators who built for compliance early are expanding; the ones who treated the lounge as a smoking room are re-filing. Two of the new permits include amphitheater-style entertainment riders — the exact shape of what we're building at the resort.

Why it matters to the forest: every permit like this normalizes the category the resort lives in — and widens the Guide's verified-listing map.

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