Family Restaurant Closing After Lawsuit Over ‘Discriminatory’ Ladies’ Night
Newsweek | 12/27/2024 | Monica SagerA popular California restaurant is closing following a lawsuit centered around its “ladies’ night” events.
Lima, a family-run restaurant in Concord, California, is shutting its doors next week after settling a discrimination lawsuit over its ladies’ night promotions. The restaurant posted on Facebook earlier this month that it was “unable to fully recover” from the lawsuit and the “compounded” issues it faced regarding increased operation costs….
Gender-based promotions, such as ladies’ nights, have faced legal trouble under the California Civil Rights Act. In 1985, the state’s Supreme Court ruled that ladies’ day promotions at car washes and elsewhere and ladies’ night promotions at restaurants and nightclubs violated the act….
Lima’s ladies’ night promotion offered women drinks, including wine, at half price for three hours each week, a deal that had been going on for years.
“It’s a frivolous lawsuit that took us down. It’s just ambulance-chasing lawyers,” John Marquez, Lima’s chef and owner, told ABC News.
Q: If I own a bar, can I give my friends free or discounted drinks? Is Ladies’ Night much different?
Regardless, they still get better looking at closing time and scientists are baffled as to the reason.
If they had changed the event to Trans-Ladies Night, there wouldn’t have been any issue…
California demands chicks pay full price for drinks.
If you have a liquor license, limit your “specials” to Happy Hour so everyone goes home happy or dies along the way. 🙂
They should have run a simultaneous, separate but equal, promotion for Everyone else who’s NOT a Lady: “Night with increased chances of meeting a Lady who’s Tipsy”. I know it doesn’t quite roll of the tongue as smoothly as “Ladies Night”, but it does sound just as enticing. The special for eveyone else includes half priced drinks if you’re buying them for a Lady.