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Target TMZ: Boardner's owner Tricia La Belle takes on the gossip hounds
To know Boardner's owner Tricia La Belle is
to know she’s a ball buster who doesn’t mess around—and I’m not just saying
that because she hosts Bar Sinister on Saturdays, a club night best known
S&M lair. Not only is she a founding member of the Hollywood Hospitality
Association, which is helping to revitalize Hollywood, but she also plays by the rules.
“The ABC liquor license is a privilege!” she says.
That said, she’d like to tear TMZ a new one for its coverage on underage drinking at the Hollywood clubs.
She says, "I don’t TMZ
really gives a good perspective on the reality of what’s really going. [To
come] to the defense of operators—even poor operators. You can’t always blame
the operator for what’s going on and I think that when you reach a certain
age—18 you have the right to vote, 21 you have the right to drink—we’re
certainly adults now and we know when we have to be responsible, when not to
get into a car, when not to engage in raping a girl. These are things you know
as an adult and to blame an operator who
can’t be by every bartender and every server’s side 24/7 is a problem to me.
I find it to be a big problem. I have five bars in my locations. On a
full-capacity night, I can have upwards of eight bartenders in one night. I can
have upwards of three servers on that. So that would be 11 people in a
7,000-square-foot location with a capacity of 500. There is absolutely no
physical way that I can monitor all of those people at one time to make sure
that those bartenders and servers are not over-serving an individual and
allowing that person to get in a vehicle, go out and possibly kill themselves
or somebody else. [...] Nightclub owners get a bad deal, yeah. [And] a lot of them have
caused that to happen for us, there’s no doubt."
You want Tricia to set you straight? Try coming to the club without an ID. God, I love this woman!
—Alexandra Le Tellier
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