Many Nashville area liquor stores were visited by Tennessee ABC agents over the past couple of weeks for "compliance checks." We know of several stores that failed to properly identify and refuse to sell to ABC confidential informants.
Expect ABC citations to be issued and $1,500 fines to be imposed for stores without a checkered past. We have heard that the ABC will reduce the fine to $1,000 if a store employee completes the ABC identification class.
The ABC is also working with local police to issue criminal citations to employees selling to minors. Although this may be new to liquor store owners, holding employees accountable for sales to minors is consistent with Commission and industry requests. Recently, LBD servers have been regularly cited criminally for sales to minors.
A conviction for sale to minor disqualifies an employee from working in the industry for eight years. Although charges are routinely reduced to a non-disqualifying conviction, employees should treat the citation seriously.
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