3 Framingham Businesses Penalized For Underage Alcohol Sales: Report

FRAMINGHAM, MA — Three local businesses were fined and face other potential penalties after they sold alcoholic beverages to an underage “customer” – a young individual assisting police with a sting operation.

The Aloft Hotel’s WXYZ Bar, restaurant Boteco do Manolo and a convenience store, Food Mart, failed compliance checks in December and January, the MetroWest Daily News reported Monday. The Framingham Board of License Commissioners reviewed the three cases last week.

Police sent the underage operative into each business with $20 – but no proof of identification and age – in an attempt to purchase alcohol.

Neither the bar nor the restaurant had failed previous checks. Each agreed to a one-day liquor license suspension, held in abeyance for a year pending any other violations, plus payment of a $300 fine.

The Food Mart store had failed a previous check, and so was given a harsher penalty: a five-day license suspension, with two days held in abeyance for six months, and a $300 fine.

To read the Daily News coverage of the board’s rulings, click here.

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