Codman Square restaurant slapped for bouncing license check, then holding illegal after-hours bash

By adamg - 1/19/12 - 3:34 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered Lorenz Island Kuisine shut for a total of ten days - five for paying for a license renewal with what turned out to be a bad check and five for holding an after-hours party in a bid to raise money to pay for the renewal.

Although the punishment is unusually harsh for the board - gun-related incidents typically merit a two-day suspension - it did not impose its ultimate sanction: Pulling the license altogether.

At a hearing on Tuesday, restaurant owner Christopher Graham said he panicked after a police detective seized his license after his check bounced and agreed to take some bad advice to open the restaurant the night of Jan. 7 as a way of getting the more than $2,000 he needed to get his license back.

Both Graham and City Councilor Charles Yancey's office pleaded for mercy, saying a bad mistake should not ruin all of the hard work Graham and his family have put into both the restaurant and the Codman Square neighborhood.

Comments

So, a gun incident is only a two day supension

By roadman - 1/19/12 - 5:09 pm
#1

but bouncing a check submitted to renew an already vaild license carries a five day one.

At least we now know what this city's priorities truly are. But I guess we really shouldn't be surprised at this.

Not really.

By craigglesnotloggedin (not verified) - 1/19/12 - 5:22 pm
#2

I think the problem came more with the illegal party than it did with the bounced check.

Wait, reading comprehension failure

By craigglesnotloggedin (not verified) - 1/19/12 - 5:23 pm
#3

Never mind that, I didn't catch that there were two five-day suspensions. That is a little bit ridiculous.

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