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IronLionZion

(47,131 posts)
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:03 PM Jan 2022

DC restaurant's liquor license suspended after violating vaccine mandate

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/dc-restaurants-liquor-license-to-be-suspended-after-violating-vaccine-mandate

A restaurant in Washington, D.C., had its liquor license suspended, making it the first establishment to face punishment for violating the district’s mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Investigators with the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration served the suspension notice to the Big Board, a specialty burger shop and pub, at 4 p.m. Friday and retrieved the restaurant's license, ABRA spokesman Jared Powell told the Washington Examiner.

“The establishment cannot sell, serve, or allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages, nor can they purchase or take delivery of alcoholic beverages from wholesalers or manufacturers while the liquor license is suspended,” Powell said in an email.

ABRA voted Wednesday to refer the Big Board to the district's attorney general to draft a suspension notice, according to Powell.

The Office of the Attorney General confirmed earlier Friday that it was in the process of drafting a suspension notice, which was posted on the front doors of the restaurant that evening. The suspension is in effect “until further notice,” according to Marrisa Geller, a press secretary for the OAG.


The restaurant must have known this would happen. They were asking for it.

There's an unrelated video of Sarah Palin at the link.
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DC restaurant's liquor license suspended after violating vaccine mandate (Original Post) IronLionZion Jan 2022 OP
OOOOOhhhh!..That's going to leave a mark! Enter stage left Jan 2022 #1
Seriously?? I love that place!! Bleacher Creature Jan 2022 #2
Their burgers and beer look good IronLionZion Jan 2022 #3
Yeah, that's way too many warnings for it to be anything other than flaunting non-compliance. Bleacher Creature Jan 2022 #4
WaPo link IronLionZion Feb 2022 #5

Bleacher Creature

(11,462 posts)
2. Seriously?? I love that place!!
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:49 PM
Jan 2022

I work a couple of blocks away and used to eat there every couple of weeks. Their "Chicago Fire" burger was so good.

I haven't been there since the pandemic started, but there's no way in hell I'd ever eat there again. That said, there's no way that place survives without selling alcohol, so it probably won't be an option much longer.

IronLionZion

(47,131 posts)
3. Their burgers and beer look good
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:59 PM
Jan 2022

but apparently it comes with a side of COVID. They're a stubborn repeat offender with enough warnings over the last few months.

Bleacher Creature

(11,462 posts)
4. Yeah, that's way too many warnings for it to be anything other than flaunting non-compliance.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 09:11 PM
Jan 2022

I liked the place - but nowhere near enough for me to ever give them another chance.

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