CITY COOL TO LIQUOR LICENSE REQUEST RESTAURANT, OWNER FAMILIAR TO POLICE.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer BURBANK - The new owner of Gitana restaurant, once part of an entertainment complex that was closed by the city after frequent run-ins with police, has applied for a liquor license Noun 1. liquor license - a license authorizing the holder to sell alcoholic beverages liquor licence license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something transfer - a move the city opposes. Joseph Georges, who said he took over the 8,000-square-foot restaurant last month, wants the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
Serving liquor to Gitana restaurant customers, Georges said, would be essential for the establishment to survive. ``It's not a fast-food restaurant where you don't need liquor with dinner,'' he said. Georges does not have a liquor license because Gitana's previous owner, ADRD ADRD Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias ADRD Another Drug Related Death ADRD Automatic Data Rate Detection Inc., canceled it in the course of the ownership transition, said Burbank Senior Planner Michael Forbes Michael Patrick Forbes (b. July 16 1952, Riverhead, New York) is a politician from the state of New York. Forbes graduated from the SUNY Albany. Forbes worked as an assistant for Sen. Al D'Amato and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack. . Gitana, at 260 E. Magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. Blvd. across from the Media City Center, opened in 1999, and once encompassed 20,000 square feet, including a nightclub, sports bar and pool parlor. In October, the City Council revoked its permit allowing it to operate as a nightclub, billiard bil·liard adj. Of, relating to, or used in billiards. n. See carom. Adj. 1. billiard - of or relating to billiards; "a billiard ball"; "a billiard cue"; "a billiard table" parlor and sports bar. In yanking the permit to operate, the council cited statistics that from October 2002 to July 2003, police were called to the location more than 70 times, resulting in more than $7,000 in costs. Police had to break up fights and authorities were concerned about the number of drunken drunk·en adj. 1. Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated. 2. Habitually drunk. 3. Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication: a drunken brawl. driving arrests connected to Gitana. In a letter to the state agency reviewing Georges' application, Burbank Assistant Community Development Director Art Bashmakian said such incidents have continued at the location. He wrote that on Jan. 16, Burbank police responded to a fight involving Gitana security guards and a drunken patron. Because of the crowd at Gitana that night, 18 police officers were needed. Burbank officials contend that incidents at Gitana draw officers away from other parts of the city. Bashmakian also wrote that Georges or his son was apparently involved in the operation of Gitana since the council forced the business to become just a restaurant, and the Georgeses ``operated the business for several months without a valid business permit.'' Georges said he only took over the business last month. Georges said he only wants to have a restaurant where customers can order alcohol and has no plans to revive To renew. For example, revival is the act of renewing the legal force of a contract or debt, either by acknowledging it or by giving a new promise, when the contract or debt is no longer a sufficient foundation for a lawsuit because it is barred by the running of the Statute the nightclub. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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