{"id":6164,"date":"2020-08-21T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madd.org\/tennessee\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:14:25","slug":"madd-does-minor-compliance-ride-along-with-tabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/tennessee\/madd-does-minor-compliance-ride-along-with-tabc\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD Does Minor Compliance Ride-Along with TABC"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) Law Enforcement Division frequently conducts Minor Compliance Checks all throughout the state of Tennessee to ensure that licensed establishments are complying with state law which prohibits the sale of alcohol to those under 21. This week, our MADD Tennessee Marketing Program Specialist, Michelle Rozell, had the privilege of joining Chief Bond Tubbs and several agents on a ride-along as they conducted these checks in Lebanon, TN.<\/p>

She joined them around 5pm on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. The operation was already in progress. They had visited four establishments before her arrival and all four had refused to sell to the Minor Decoy, a 19-year-old female. Unfortunately, the fifth establishment, checked after she joined them, did sell. Jalisco Mexican Restaurant was fined an administrative citation for selling to a minor in addition to citations for a server who did not have the required server permit to sell alcohol, nor proper Human Resources documentation on file. The server was given a criminal citation for selling alcohol to a minor.<\/p>

As the Minor Decoy visited each establishment, agents outside watched on video and communicated with plain clothes agents from within as she attempted to order alcohol. They were able to observe rather or not the server asked for ID when the order was placed and confirm if the server actually delivered what was ordered to the Minor Decoy. The Minor Decoy used her own real driver’s license and had been instructed to provide it when asked and make no attempt to lie or conceal her real age. Of those servers who asked for her ID, some told her they could not sell her alcohol. Some, however, checked her ID, and served her anyway.<\/p>

By the end of the night, twenty establishments had been checked, including restaurants licensed to sell liquor by the drink, retailers such as grocery stores, and liquor stores. Five out of the twenty in Lebanon that night sold alcohol to the Minor Decoy. They included Jalisco Mexican Restaurant, O’Charley’s Restaurant & Bar, Logan’s Roadhouse, Demos’ Steak and Spaghetti House, and Bangkok Pad Thai Asian Kitchen. All were inside sales where the Minor Decoy went inside, sat at a table or the bar, and placed an order with a server. No establishments that agents investigated in Lebanon were selling alcohol with curbside orders.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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