Motorists and shoppers will be able to pick up wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages at the Wawa under construction at 530 Lincoln Highway in Falls Township, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2023.

The Falls supervisors voted Monday night in favor of an inter-municipal liquor license transfer, allowing customers to purchase up to 192 ounces of beer or up to 3,000 milliliters of wine per transaction.

Although most Wawa's operate 24 hours a day, liquor sales at this location will be from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday to Saturday, and from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Sunday. Wine sales will stop at 11 p.m. every day, according to the township.

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The new store would have five cooler doors, as well as beer and wine on the shelves and would have a seating area for up to 30 customers at a time, according to a news release.

Ellen Freeman, a lawyer with Flaherty & O’Hara, a nationwide law firm which provides legal services and counsel to clients in the beverage alcohol industry, said Wawa operates 15 stores in the Pennsylvania that sell liquor.

"Wawa is very familiar with the process, they've been able to trouble-shoot it over the years, and they know it's a very sensitive sell and (Wawa) wants to make sure they do that in the safest manner possible, certainly to keep the municipality safe and keep their reputation to a very high standard," Freeman said. "The way they do that is to make sure they have the safety policies and procedures in place so there's no gray area."

Freeman said this new Wawa will have a "100% carding policy" using a card-scanning transaction device that will also verify the purchaser's identity and age. Freeman also said there won't be advertisements for liquor throughout the store, and seating will be limited to the area where liquor is being sold.

"(Wawa) is not promoting on-premises consumption," said Freeman, "but legally they do have to allow it, so they do put a maximum-drink policy in place and there's signage to that effect in the seating area."

That policy, Freeman said, allows purchasers to consume two 12-ounce cans or bottles of beer, one 8-ounce glass of wine, sold in single packets. Purchasers will not be able to buy a bottle of wine and consume it on-site.

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Fall Supervisor Vice-Chairman Jeffrey Boraski, who cast the lone vote against the resolution authorizing the liquor license transfer, took Wawa to task for apparently adding liquor sales to the development, long after supervisors approved the project.

"When Wawa came in and first made this proposal, I wasn't overly excited about the Wawa being there, but I got on board with the plan and approved the Wawa, but I just wished they would have told us about the liquor license (then)," Boraski said in a news release. "I don't like them coming back to us after we've already approved that business."

This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Falls OKs liquor sales at new Wawa on Lincoln Highway