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Newbury Street Japanese restaurant smacked with four-day license suspension for underage drinkers
By adamg on Fri, 06/12/2015 - 10:20am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered a four-day shutdown for Itadaki, 267-269 Newbury Street, after a BPD detective found four 18-year-olds sitting at a table with Bud Lights - and fake out-of-state IDs.
At a hearing on Tuesday, Itadaki acknowledged the violation - and said it was planning to sue the families of the four teens for getting it in trouble and damaging its reputation. In addition to the possible lawsuit, the teens face criminal action for allegedly being minors in possession of alcohol.
The restaurant terminated the server, bought a new license scanner and said it had retrained the remaining staff to accept a more limited range of IDs.
The restaurant had gotten a three-day license suspension in December for a similar offense last year.
The restaurant can appeal the suspension to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.
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Good job bratty underage kids
Good job bratty underage kids.
It's obvious that something's lacking in these kids' upbringing.
I hope that both the kids (who're 18 and now legally adults) and their families get into trouble for screwing the restaurant owners' out of their livelihoods and wrecking their reputation. I hope the kids get into trouble for lying about their ages and producing Fake I. D.'s, as well.
Ridiculous
If I were the restaurant I'd sue the kids & their families for the lost business.
They are.
Funny, that actually seems to be happening.
Sue the family for 4 days worth of lost sales
If they provided the money for the kids to drink.
This is beyond wrong if the kids had fake IDs.
No liability under Mass. law for acts of children over 18
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter231/Se...
The restaurant had gotten a
And the 18 year old kids parents have just been handed their defense on a silver platter. Excellent!
Someone else robbed the same bank
last year is a non-viable defense.
Except for the fact
that the restaurant has been previously cited for serving alcohol to underage patrons. Kinda puts a crimp in the "damage to reputation" argument the restaurant's using in this attempt at extortion.
Limit Liability
There is only one true criminal in underage drinking, and it's not the supplier. Just like in a Storrowing there is only one guily party, the truck driver.
not that it's entirely relevant here...
...but it's silly that this country doesn't allow adults to drink alcohol. Freedom!
Or Just Be Smart?
I think it's been pointed out before, but who goes to a Japanese restaurant and orders a Bud Lite? Someone underage, that's who.
I remember when my friends and I would try drink recipes in our early 20s. We'd always go to the liquor store with the recipe, quiz the clerk about which brands of whatever were the best, or especially good for what we wanted, and then buy. We'd never get carded. Granted, we were all over 21, but just. There would be no way to tell, except that someone underage would want to get in and out faster than we did.
Firing the Server
That probably wasn't a good idea. It could be construed as a tacit admission that the server could have seen through the fakes.