TLC Sports Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Columbia

This owner of this bar JUSTIN, is a shady character- always has been. Recently I became aware of the SCAM he is running. I’m going to break it down for you. When you go there and order a drink and close your tab out right away, if the total isn’t over $15 he automatically charges your card $15 but it won’t appear on your bank account until days later after they have changed it. All while your signing your receipt the bartenders have been told not to mention this $15 minimum. But here’s what makes this scam so genius, he has 3 different locations you can order drinks from, the bar out front, the one inside, and the one out back. You have to open up a separate tab at each location unlike a normal bar where you can open up a tab and it covers the entire bar. So say you spent $200 at the middle bar and only order 1 drink at the bar out front and the one out back. Your gonna be charged that $15 minimum at the front and back bar even though you just spent $200 inside. Justin loves the way it’s setup because every single tab that is open is an automatic $15 and he hopes you buy one drink because then it’s free money in his pocket after that. The main reason he gets away with this is 95% of his customers are underage college kids using fake IDs and paying with their parents credit cards. I’ve been around the bar scene in Columbia for 15 years and I’ll say this is one of the shadiest things I’ve seen a bar do for money, it’s pretty smart though I’ll...

I told the bartender that I wanted to close my tab after paying for my first drink and she suggested for me to keep my tab open and for her to keep the card behind the counter. Not being used to keeping open tabs, I forgot to grab the card back when I left. The next day I called and they had no trace of my card. They either lost it or gave it to someone else by mistake. Thankfully nothing was spent, but overall would have been a great experience if it weren’t for them losing my card after I specifically said I wanted to close my tab. (I also understand this was partially my fault, the whole situation just seems quite sketchy, especially since other people have also had similar...

I walked in, and things were ok until I went to the bar. Upon going up to the only bar that accepts credit, I waited 20 minutes before being cussed out by a bartender working here for daring to request his attention. The manager on duty did his best to assuage the anger I felt at being accosted as a paying customer- but how can any bar justify employing someone who makes a habit of doing stuff like that? The managers reaction told me this was not the first time that this had happened. I will not return, and do not recommend to anyone in the...