Unable to Order Multiple Beers at SFO United Club
Apr 24, 2015, 2:28 pm
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Bears have the most highly sensitive sense of smell of any mammal and thus, would be very unlikely to enter a UC due to its lack of desirable/edible food.
Apr 24, 2015, 2:30 pm
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Apr 24, 2015, 2:54 pm
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Apr 25, 2015, 2:47 am
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I have many times ordered and received two (usually different) alcoholic drinks for me and my wife at the Int'l UC at SFO without being carded or questioned. My wife was usually nowhere in sight. So definitely not standard procedure unless it has changed in recent weeks.
Apr 25, 2015, 9:30 am
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Apr 25, 2015, 9:32 am
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OP, be glad they were serving at all. Last time I went to the UC at SFO, they closed the bar and took away all the food by 10:30pm despite being "open" till 11:30.
Apr 25, 2015, 9:57 am
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The modern soft prohibition is unfortunately slowly spreading into Europe and Asia as well.
Apr 25, 2015, 10:06 am
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I believe this is directly related to liability insurance. Just as you can successfully sue a bar for serving you too much if you get into an accident, I'm sure you could also sue the vending machine operators for "serving" you.
Apr 25, 2015, 2:49 pm
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Yea the bartender probably thought they were both for him.
I wonder about ordering doubles. I've never done it except at ORD when they gave me drink tickets, I asked her for a bigger glass and a double so I wouldn't have to come back and she was fine with it.
This is like at sporting events though where they can only sell you 2, unless you have someone else with you.
I wonder about ordering doubles. I've never done it except at ORD when they gave me drink tickets, I asked her for a bigger glass and a double so I wouldn't have to come back and she was fine with it.
This is like at sporting events though where they can only sell you 2, unless you have someone else with you.
Apr 25, 2015, 5:14 pm
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When I lived there you could also get 750s of whiskey from vending machines.
Apr 25, 2015, 5:49 pm
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When I lived there you could also get 750s of whiskey from vending machines.
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Apr 25, 2015, 6:41 pm
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I had read that the beer vending machines in Japan went away several years ago because somebody finally figured out they were an easy way for high schoolers to circumvent the legal drinking age (well, duh!). Is that not the case?
When I lived there you could also get 750s of whiskey from vending machines.
When I lived there you could also get 750s of whiskey from vending machines.
Apr 25, 2015, 11:07 pm
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