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Problems began in early 2004 after Chen was accused of selling alcohol to minors. Chen challenged that charge in court on February 25 of last year. His punishment was light: his store would be watched especially closely for a year, but if nothing went wrong, he’d be in the clear. The far more severe penalty, as Chen tells it, came at the hands of the Cambridge License Commission. On March 16, 2004, the Commission barred Louie’s from selling alcohol on Sundays for an entire year. The no-Sundays ruling came just after the repeal...
...Louie’s had never been able to sell liquor on Sundays before, why would a prohibition now hurt business? When he could not sell alcohol on Sunday, Chen reasons, “students would buy alcohol on Saturday and save it for Sunday. Now they can buy it on Sunday, so they don’t show up on Saturdays anymore...
...Chen thinks two armed robberies within a span of three months last year might also be to blame. The customers have literally been scared away...
...Chen seems to be avoiding the giant white elephant in the Superette...
Since he was caught selling alcohol to minors, Chen says he has taken serious precautions to make sure that it never happens again. And he’s not lying—at least when FM was present. He refused to sell beer to a customer who had a Massachusetts driver’s license saying he was 23 but no backup. The man stormed away angrily with a terse “fuck...