SAN FRANCISCO — Bar and liquor store owners are fighting back against underage drinkers that cost them thousands of dollars in profit when they are caught.
San Francisco has no shortage of bars or underage drinkers who try to sneak into them, usually with the help of a fake ID or a valid drivers license they got from a friend. The problem is that if they get caught, they don’t get into much legal trouble.
In California, an underage drinker faces a $250 fine. The bar, on the other hand, stands to lose thousands of dollars and even its liquor license if more than one underage drinker is caught there.
A group of San Francisco bar owners is fighting back by taking underage drinkers to court and making them pay for lost wages and profits. The owner of one bar, Amante's, took a 20-year-old woman to small claims court and won a $5,000 judgment after she used a friend's ID to get in, resulting in a $3,000 fine for the bar.
“I don’t want to ruin her life,” said Amante’s owner Michael DiBenedetti. “But I do want to make it so [she] thinks seriously about doing this, not just to us, but to any bar out there because it hurts so much.”
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I am sure underage folks won't like it but it makes sence.
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