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Rajasuru renewal remanded and approved for one year after carding-sting failure and a point-of-sale software glitch
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Rajasuru (3801 E. New York St.) had a prior denial remanded to the local board; owners explained a register/software error and that an employee in training made the sale that led to a compliance fail. Board renewed for one year and noted system upgrades and staff changes.
The Local Alcoholic Beverage Board reconsidered and approved a one-year renewal on Sept. 2 for Rajasuru Inc., doing business at 3801 East New York Street, after the Alcohol & Tobacco Commission remanded the matter for local review.
Owners said the application had been remanded after the state initially voted to deny and that new evidence about the incidents had been provided to the board. Attorney and owner representatives explained a point-of-sale software malfunction that temporarily created negative transaction balances; the vendor Verifone remotely restarted and reloaded the system to correct the problem. “They had to remotely restart their software,” counsel said, and the owners provided logs and case numbers from the vendor to the board.
The board also reviewed a compliance failure in which an employee in training completed a sale to a youth during a sting. Owners said the employee was in a probationary training period, did not complete that period and subsequently was dismissed. The business also supplied later documentation of a successful tobacco compliance check and said it had installed an ID scanner to block underage purchases.
Board members expressed concern about the hindering allegation — an excise officer reported that a staff member moved receipts during an inspection — and about the use of an in-training clerk alone at a register. Owners said the clerk had been trying to discard obsolete receipts related to the software glitch, and that the employee was not retained. The board accepted the vendor logs and the corrective steps taken and approved a one-year renewal, giving the business time to demonstrate continued compliance and the function of its upgraded transaction system.
The board required that the owner maintain the new ID-scanning system and follow up with employee-permit and training records to excise staff.
