509 Lounge — Restaurant in Daytona Beach

My sister and her friend were going to go out tonight on the first of April. them being over the age of 21 were going to consume alcohol at you facility. They asked for me to be their designated driver. Me being 18 with ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTIONS TO DRINK decided to take on that role and do the responsible thing. after spending the $15 a person to go in I go to the bathroom while my sister and her friend go and get drinks. we meet up shortly after and I ask them where I can go to get a soda. This being my first time ever going to a place like this and after tonight being the only time I will ever go, I didn't want to accidentally go to the wrong place and give anyone a thought that I was trying to so something unlawful. I get My soda and we step out onto the front patio, I talk to my sister and her friends for no more that thirty seconds and I told them, "You guys go and have fun, I will go and sit down and drink my soda." While I am talking to them one of the guards rips my drink out of my hands and yells at me. He said, "what are you drinking son." I respond with Pepsi. He then in an unsanitary fashion sticks his nose within five millimeters of my beverage. Like I had stated before it was only soda and I have NO INTENTIONS WHAT SO EVER OF DRINKING. My sisters friend tells him in an elevated voice due to the intensity of the music, "it is only soda." The guard who clearly can smell that there is no alcohol in the drink looks over at her and sarcastically said, "well then you can go and buy him a new one," and he throws my soda into the bushes. I never even took a sip out of the drink and he acted as if I should go out and buy another soda for him to throw into the bushes. The bartender gave me another soda but after that it took all my courage to take two sips of it. I have NEVER been in a situation of which I had felt so afraid, assaulted and harassed as this moment I had experienced tonight. I cannot believe that this is how anyone would treat customers and all I was doing was going out to make sure everyone got home safely and take a few potential drunk drivers off the road. We were in there for no more than 15 minutes and most of it was talking to the manager about the issue of which he did nothing. I understand that underage drinking is an issue you have to deal with regularly, and that that guard is pressured in a tight spot in having to deal with this, but that did not give him the reason to invade my emotion and traumatize me in the way that he did. There is a better way for him to approach this, He could have came up and politely said, Hey it is my job to make sure there is not underage drinking, can I check your cup to make sure of it?" I would have been fine with it, and anyone whom could have had alcohol in that situation would have been easily identifiable. Like I said this has been a horrendous experience for me and as I sit here typing this, I am extremely tense. I view myself as professional, I confront people in a professional manner and I expect similar treatment. Lastly I see in your description that you strive to provide an exceptional nightlife experience that you'll never forget. I can be the one to assure you that you have...

My wife and I are Florida residents and this was the first time we been here. We got a vip table & a couple of bottles of champagne right next to the dj booth and dance floor & ended 2022 in style. Excellent service from the minute we got there until we left. I would like to thank Eric who greeted us with a smile, very friendly, soft spoken, clean cut, and assisted us with the vip table. Also thank you to the 2 classy and respectable female servers who also greeted us with a smile carrying the bottles of champagne with flashy lights. They were dancing by us, opened up champagne bottles and poured our drinks for us.. they made my wife feel like she was a celebrity and she was glowing like I never seen before and I felt the same way as well. The servers also checked up on us like every half hour until we left. Also I would like to thank the bouncer/security as well who kept An eye on us the whole night to ensure we were having a good time. People next to us were acting up and attempted to invade our space; the bouncer/security were there so fast to stop it, when we looked over they weren’t there anymore. Matter of fact we didn’t see them the rest of the night. We will be...

If I could give this place zero stars I would. This place employs people who think it’s okay to use the sexuality of their patrons/paying customers as bait for offensive, immature and idiotic jokes. My brother (a gay man) visited recently and was placed in the center of a homophobic joke (publicly ridiculed) by the door guy, bouncer and a local police officer! This was witnessed by my sister who confronted the three “men” and then left. I will not accept that a place where people are supposed to be going to have fun and let loose would EVER consider keeping on staff that promote a purposefully hostile or uncomfortable environment for their patrons! Not only is it immoral, but incredibly unprofessional. I would NEVER consider spending a dollar at a professional establishment that promoted homophobia and public ridicule like this. If you’re in Daytona I do recommend skipping the club that slanders gay people. IT IS...