GLITCH DELAYS ALCOHOL DELIVERIES TO MONTREAL BARS

More than 900 Montreal-area restaurants and bars are facing lengthy delays in their wine and liquor shipments because of a computer glitch in a new system that was just set up by the Société des alcools du Québec. Many downtown restaurants were already running low on supplies a week after last weekend’s busy Grand Prix, and they don’t know when they will be getting their next deliveries from the SAQ. “It’s not a pretty situation,” said Sindie Goineau, sommelière of Chez Victoire on Mont-Royal Ave. E. In a statement on its website, the provincial Crown corporation attributed the delays to a new distribution system. Anne-Sophie Hamel, a spokesperson for the SAQ, was unable to say when delivery service would return to normal. “It’s not an ideal situation,” she conceded. “There’s been a technical problem in the software.”