Ken Allen, Esquire

  Suite 1980, 1201 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29201

Phone: 800-858-9237, Fax: 803-748-1336

E-mail: kallenlaw@sc.rr.com

Licensing assistance for: hotels, restaurants, private clubs, liquor stores, on and off premise beer & wine, wholesalers, distillers, brewers & importers

Representative Clients: ARAMARK, Marriott International, Westin, Interstate Hotels, Darden  Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster), Red Robin International, Wild Dunes Beach & Racquet Club, Spinx C-Stores, Long Horn Steakhouses, Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili's, Chipotle, Carrabba's, Total Wine & More, Coors Brewery, Daufuskie Island Resort, Harbour Town Yacht Club, Fatz’s Café,  Fripp Island Company, Amerada Hess Corp., Lone Star Steakhouse, Murphy Oil USA, Ovations Food Services, Quaker Steak & Lube, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, SMG Food and Beverages, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Charleston Harbor Resort, Barbara Jean's Restaurant & Bar, Equity Inns, Residence Inn, Levy Restaurants, North Augusta Golf Club, Mimi’s Café, Radisson, Ramada Hotel, Sheraton, American Property Management Corporation, Litchfield Plantation, American General Hospitality, Inc., Tega Cay Resort, Inc., Myrtle Beach Yacht Club, Charlotte Knights Baseball Club, T.G.I. Friday's Restaurants, Flying J Truck Stops, Hooters of America, Coral Beach Resorts, Volume Services, Sun Cruz Casino, Wyndham International, Dicks Last Resort of Myrtle Beach, Triton Pacific Capital Partners, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, International Club, Phillips Seafood House, Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Club, Walgreens Drugs, Pilot Truck Stops, DiamondRock Hospitality Company, The Reserve at Lake Keowee, Billy Casper Golf.

Director of SC Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission 1975-1977

Commissioner on SC Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission 1977-1982

Chairman of SC Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission 1982-1984

1995 Appointed by SC Senate Judiciary Committee to Blue Ribbon Task Force to modernize and improve legislation dealing with the state's Alcohol Beverage Laws

Currently  serving on the South Carolina Department of Revenue’s Alcohol Advisory Board

2006 Served on Editorial Board for the legal treatise, The Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages in South Carolina

2011 Served on the City of Columbia Hospitality Study Committee

Member of:

The National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Attorneys

The Alliance of Alcohol Industry Attorneys and Consultants

The National Association of Licensing and Compliance Professionals

The Hospitality Association of South Carolina

The South Carolina Administrative and Regulatory Law Association  

Publications: 

Taking Liquor Store Inventory as Collateral / Palmetto Banker Magazine