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City officials solicit names of problem bars
Published: Monday, July 14, 2008
Columbus City Council is beginning action that could lead to last call in some local bars. Council and City Attorney Richard Pfeiffer have initiated the annual process to object to the renewal of liquor permits in what city officials describe as “problem establishments.”
Each year, council makes formal objection to the renewal of liquor permits held by some establishments throughout the city. The establishments are so chosen by evidence that they have operated outside the law or in conflict with the public good.
The city is soliciting suggestions from local area commissions, civic associations and block watches, said Andrew Ginther, head of council’s public safety committee. Names of problem bars can be directed to Assistant City Attorney Natalia Harris by phone, 614-645-4980, or via e-mail at nsharris@columbus.gov; or by contacting Ginther’s aide, Kenneth Paul, at 614-645-2931, or kcpaul@columbus.gov.
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City officials solicit names of problem bars
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What makes the think that zeno’s is going to be the top of this little list?
Zeno’s will be fine!
They’re bad on the smoking ban, but I’m pretty sure they’re good neighbors!
This type of action requires shootings, insane #s of noise complaints, multiple underage sales violations, prostitution busts, etc.
I bet Major Woody’s will be on this list…..
I really think this could be named “The Major Woody’s Act”
Zeno’s will be fine!
They’re bad on the smoking ban, but I’m pretty sure they’re good neighbors!
This type of action requires shootings, insane #s of noise complaints, multiple underage sales violations, prostitution busts, etc.
it never gets very loud outside because they’re all inside smoking :lol:
The guys that run Zeno’s live in the house next door…I doubt they are complaining about noise, public intox or anything else related to the bar itself. A fair portion of the other neighbors are regulars at Zenos. The restaurant across the street is making a killing off the crowds that pack into Zenos four nights a week and have even extended their hours of operation to cater to the late-night hunger of Zenos patrons. I don’t understand why everyone hates Zeno’s all of a sudden. Dick is a stand-up guy trying to make an honest living. Sure he has controversial beliefs about how he should be entitled to run his business but it’s pretty widely known that if you don’t like smoke, you don’t go to Zenos. Perhaps instead you could go to one of the countless other establishments in town where the smoking ban IS enforced?? All over the country smokers are corralled into small designated smoking areas and required to endure extreme temperatures in order to partake. In some, “smoking friendly,” airports they hearded into a small glass enclosure where they can huddle together and be examined by passers-by as if they are animals in a zoo. All the while, the substance which they are ingesting is completely legal.
Look, I get it. I know smoking is bad for you and others that happen to be around you. It makes your clothes stink. It makes your breath stink, your teeth yellow and gives you premature wrinkles but is it really that terrible that the smokers get to hold on to one lousy, hole-in-the-wall corner bar??
mcfaddens please.
All I know is the people outside of Tip Top and BONO togo are up makin’ a clamorin’ early into da’ mornin’. Good for nothin’ hooligans!!!
The owner of Zeno’s, as nice as he may be.. is intent on breaking the law of the land in the loudest way he can.
Code enforcement people tend to get upset about these things and Zeno’s will probably have their liquor license at least under review, and will more than likely be revoked at some point in the future..
It’s just how things go…
I agree that the code enforcement people will be focusing on bars with a reputation, but I could really see Zeno’s getting caught up in this…
Dick is a “stand-up guy”?
Is this suddenly the fucking Soprano’s? Bullshit! Standup guys obey the law. He doesn’t. He’s a douche. “honest living” requires that he follow the law, BTW.
“If you don’t smoke you don’t go to Zeno’s” is also a crock of shit. Non-Smokers are welcome everywhere…there’s a fucking indoor smoking ban that supports me.
Go to one of the “countless other establishments…”?? You don’t have to count..it’s ALL OF THEM. There is a law, and this jackass has decided he’s above it.
That’s like saying “Let the guy drink little boy’s piss…there are countless other guys who don’t drink boy’s piss…”
Oh…poor smokers and their “extreme temperatures”.
How’s this…you want to smoke inside? Stay at home!
I personally am against the smoking ban, but the law is the law…and if everyone else has to abide, this douche needs to abide also.
I hope (and expect) the book to be thrown at this guy…he’s as far from “stand-up” as any common criminal.
r.e.l.a.x.
Starbucks will. not. let. me.
not to sound like a broken record but I don’t go to zeno’s and it’s not because of the smoke.. it’s because the place always smells like piss. Also Cafe Corner isn’t open past 3pm so I’m not sure which zeno’s crowd they are making a killing off of. Now the eggs place, maybe they are? If they cleaned up the place a little I’d be there all the time since it’s so close… but for now, ick.
Cafe Corner = EGGS
location yes, but I was under the impression that is was different guys running the two business’s. Is that wrong?
Jon & Pete ran Cafe Corner and now Pete is focusing on Cafe Corner while Jon is doing EGGS. (Or maybe I have the names reversed. I tend to do that sometimes with them.) :oops:
nice! thanks for the info… now if they would do a hybrid and open for dinner the H-west would be a happy place.
+1
nice! thanks for the info… now if they would do a hybrid and open for dinner the H-west would be a happy place.
I agree. I want to get hashbrown casserole ALL the time! :)
Whatever the place is that serves “The Horseshoe” = every breakfast food a human can think of piled together in a pie pan = FUCKING GOOD AT 3AM.