Beer sales will be suspended after the Christmas and New Year’s holiday, from Jan. 4 to Jan. 7, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House Chattanooga.
That’s because during a March 19 sting operation, a 19-year-old waitress at the upscale restaurant near Hamilton Place shopping mall served Michelob Ultra draft beer to two 19-year-old decoys.
The Chattanooga Beer Board voted 5-2 on April 20 to suspend beer sales for three days at Ruth’s Chris starting May 4.
But the restaurant’s owner, Sizzling Steak Concepts, fought the suspension.
It hired Red Bank attorney Johnny Houston, who filed a May 1 appeal in Hamilton County Chancery Court that said the beer board’s decision was “capricious,” “arbitrary” and “unlawful” and that it would cause the franchise steak house “irreparable harm.”