Dave’s Who’s Inn in Sheboygan is set to resume business operations with a few changes.
The Downtown Sheboygan establishment had been closed since the beginning of July amid a dispute with the city over conditions placed on their liquor license.
These conditions were: no minors were to be allowed on the premises and they must use metal detection wands on every single patron that enters the bar.
Dave Repinski and his attorney, Richard Hahn, argued that these new conditions they had been placed under were vague and unfair.
Dave’s Who’s Inn has underage employees who work at the bar as pin setters, is a popular spot in the city for families to get fish dinners, and is the only bar in the city required to wand each and every patron that enters the building.
It is for these reasons that Repinski and his legal counsel strongly opposed the conditions to which their liquor license was subject.
At the Sheboygan Licensing, Hearings, and Public Safety meeting on July 25, this committee agreed that the current conditions of the license, which have kept the bar closed for nearly a month, were excessive, unfair, and had no concrete end date.
The new conditions of the liquor license have been reduced or eliminated.
Minors are once again allowed on the premises, and metal detection wanding is only to be done on weekends from 10:00 p.m. to close, Friday through Sunday.
The Sheboygan Police Department also agreed these new conditions were fair and reasonable.
The conditions will go until the end of the calendar year, and if they are complied with, they will be eliminated when the year-long liquor license expires.
