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McCarthy insists that since the ABCC hearing, he has redoubled his efforts to prevent minors from entering the bar. He says he is considering installing a swipe machine to verify the authenticity of ID's within the next two weeks, such as the ones used at clubs on Lansdowne Street...
...according to city licensing officials, the Grille, primarily by virtue of deft legal representation and restrictions on the Cambridge and Massachusetts agencies responsible for overseeing it, has managed to elude the clutches of the Cambridge License Commission and Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC), despite a plethora of underage students found drinking there in stings conducted over the past decade...
...however, the bar--and the first-years who perennially frequent it on Thursday through Saturday nights--may be crashing back to earth. Two weeks ago, ABCC investigators who found six minors drinking at the Grille in a December sting recommended that the Commission refuse McCarthy the option of paying a fine in lieu of a license suspension, as he has done after each finding of underage drinking--at least five to the state and one to the city, according to the commissions' records...
...according to Cambridge License Commission Executive Director Richard V. Scali, the Cambridge commission plans to schedule a hearing on the bar's entire record in late April to early May that could result in a revocation of its alcohol license, after the ABCC makes it disposition...
Although McCarthy says his receipts remain healthy--and should increase for the duration of the March college basketball tournament--student regulars at the Grille counter that attendance at the bar has dropped due to more scrupulous efforts by bouncers and fears that ABCC investigators may be lurking in the woodwork...