1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Now a popular Wellington nightclub is facing a license suspension 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: all over a bar tab. So what's happened? As Dakota 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,159 Speaker 1: Bar and Courtney Place has been offering one hundred and 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: fifty dollars bar tab as the prize for its weekly 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: quiz night, but the rules say that giving away free 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: alcohol isn't allowed, that you should They should have offered 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: a food and beverage voucher instead, which is basically the 8 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: same thing, isn't it. Jose Ubiaga is the owner of 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: Dakota Bar and with us. 10 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: Hello, Jose, Hi, here there you go. 11 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: Well, thank you. This is silly, isn't it. 12 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: Personally I think it's absolutely crazy. Yeah, it's you. It's 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: Beyonesly and I agree. I mean food and beverage voucher 14 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 2: or bar tab or bar voucher. I mean, it doesn't 15 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 2: matter how you dress it up, it's all the same thing. 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, who told you? With the Wellington City Council you 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: should have called it a food and beverage voucher. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: That's coming from the head of the alcohol license thing. 19 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: Did they tell you? Did they give you a warning? 20 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,639 Speaker 2: They send me I have received a warning because I've 21 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: got a couple of bars. They sent me a warning 22 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: from one bar, and then because this is the practice 23 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 2: that we've been using, well, I have been using for 24 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: twenty years, and so I don't agree with the change 25 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: of terminology, but I'm happy to try and work with it. 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: So I did try and change it. But then in 27 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: one of my other bars, that was put out there 28 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 2: again as well for a bar tab for another promotion, 29 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 2: which was we do a bingo night, the same sort 30 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: of thing, and so I got another warning for that, 31 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: and so so I changed my terminology. And then there 32 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: was a poster that I used all last year which 33 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 2: also has it in it too, and I reused that poster, 34 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: which I forgot that it had bar tab on it 35 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: as well. And this was the final straw for the 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 2: licensing team, and so they put me through to Allah 37 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: asking for now she wants this ninety six hour suspension 38 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: or cancelation of my license. This is what she's asking for. 39 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: Okay, So it's pretty serious. Howse have we got a 40 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: bit weird about booze in this country? I mean, like, 41 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: I'm not a bit drinker anymore. I've got children, so 42 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: I can't so I'm not I'm not trying to defend 43 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: my favorite hobby or anything like that. But I do 44 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: feel like we have got weird again about alcohol, haven't. 45 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,839 Speaker 3: We Well, it depends on where you live, because each 46 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 3: area they can interpret the laws a little bit differently, 47 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 3: and unfortunately here in Wontington we seem to have some 48 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 3: of the stricter interpretations. 49 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I already hate you guys on Courtney Place A 50 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: they do, yes, yep, you know. 51 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: Ironically, the when people do redeem our Barthab, ninety five 52 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 2: percent of the sales will be food and non alcoholic 53 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: drinks from the Bathab. So it's not like we have 54 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: a problem with intoxication. Yeah, because people are coming in 55 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: and getting hammered while we're winning. 56 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 1: Good luck fighting this because this does seem a bit silly. 57 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: Jose Ubiaga, who's the owner of Courtney Place Bar, Dakota. 58 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: For more from Hither duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to 59 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 60 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeart Radio.