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| - My buddy from France and I went there tonight, and as always they had a checkpoint at the door like it's some sort of exclusive high-security joint and not the average sports bar that it is. He showed them his ID from France and the bouncer (for real, at a sports bar) said he wouldn't accept it. My friend and I have been going to bars around Cleveland all summer long and he's never had a problem using a French ID, so clearly this is the Wink's problem and not ours. The bouncer dude said he didn't have any way to know whether it was real or not because French IDs weren't in their book -- that's your problem, not ours. I guess there are several ID-checking books out there and the Wink cut corners by buying the cheapest one and hoping that no foreigners ever tried to patronize it. He also said my friend should go home and get his passport, like we're going to take our passports to go watch the Cavs. We were not allowed in. Not even to just get food or watch the game.
Get real, we're going to have a beer and watch ESPN, not take out a bank loan or enter a foreign country. There's no need to be such a dick when it's your fault you can't verify an ID. Like Cami said in her review, it's easy enough to just put a mark on someone's hand or tell the waitress not to serve him alcohol. We proposed these and other middle-ground solutions (including simply Googling the standard guide for checking a French ID since that's what they were missing) and they just refused to listen or even have a conversation about it. Needless to say, we won't be going back. I used to go every few weeks but tonight they lost my friends and I as customers.
For what it's worth, we just went up the road to another bar to watch the game and didn't have any trouble at all with the French ID. The Wink just thinks it's special. How about they learn what acceptable customer service is, and try to treat their regular customers with some common decency instead of just putting a hand in my face.
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