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Jess Wilkerson got tired of waiting.

The owner of Trolley Wing Company informed Utah's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Tuesday that he was purchasing a liquor license from a bar going out of business. That removed him from the waiting list for a highly coveted bar license.

DABC commissioners, sympathetic to his plight, told him "congratulations!"

"Every time I come to this building, I leave with a different emotion. I’m either really happy or really upset or very angry or sad. But today, I’m happy," Wilkerson told FOX 13 afterward.

The DABC officially has no more bar licenses available and a list of businesses that want one.

The highly coveted licenses are doled out by population quota -- one for about every 10,000 residents. Each month, businesses plead their case and the commission decides who gets one. That license can make or break a business. Commissioners have publicly stated their preference to give licenses to "under-served areas," which often means rural Utah.

There may be only three licenses available in 2020 by population, and one may already be spoken for depending on how a court case resolves.

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