Nearly every full-service restaurant in Virginia that is still operating during the coronavirus emergency has suddenly shifted to a takeout-only model, but the shift has deprived the restaurants of their most lucrative product: booze sales.

“[Liquor sales] represent 30 or so percent of our sales with the highest profit margins of any category,” said Michelle Williams of Richmond Restaurant Group. As of Monday, she’d shifted four of her Richmond-area restaurants to takeout and delivery only. Four others have been closed since Monday.

While wine and beer are included in that 30%, spirits and cocktails are the most profitable — and that’s where many in the restaurant industry want to see ABC further loosen restrictions.

“We’ve asked them to consider dispensation for [restaurants],” said Thomas A. Lisk, a lobbyist for the Virginia Restaurant, Lodging and Travel Association.

Lisk was part of the conversations this week asking ABC to allow wine and beer to go. The association also wants the restaurant industry to be able to create and sell cocktails for takeout or delivery, as has been allowed in other states this week, including Texas and New York. Lisk said his group is also working with ABC to allow liquor delivery and other changes.