The fee for Flowery Branch businesses to sell distilled spirits has been lowered after local restaurant owners complained the original rates were too high. Nicholas and Alison St. Clair, owners of Antebellum Restaurant on Church Street in Flowery Branch, had complained to council members in November about finding it difficult to pay the original $5,000 fee for the sale of distilled spirits. “It would really help out me and Alison and a few other businesses around the area if we could get that lowered to the average of other cities,” Nicholas St. Clair said at Thursday’s Flowery Branch city council meeting.