Windy City Sundries — Restaurant in Hickory

NOT FOR FOREIGNERS EVEN WITH PASSPORT.

Passports supercede a driver's license or any state ID. Despite that fact, a friend of ours was not allowed to purchase an alcoholic beverage because it is not "North Carolina ID"

According to North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 18B-302 Section D. Article 1. :

Defense. - It is a defense to a violation of subsection (a) of this section if the seller does any of the following: Shows that the purchaser produced a driver's license, a special identification card issued under G.S. 20-37.7 or issued by the state agency of any other state authorized to issue similar official state special identification cards for that state, a military identification card, or a passport, showing the purchaser's age to be atleast the required age for purchase and bearing a physical description of the person named on the card reasonably describing the purchaser"

Meaning that passport is INDEED a valid form of ID displaying that the purchaser is within for purchasing an alcoholic beverage in North Carolina

And DESPITE THIS, The barista did not "feel comfortable" serving our friend.

This is an unwelcoming sight of discrimination and is really such a strange thing. This is what keeps...

According to North Carolina law, any passport, regardless of nationality, is valid to purchase an alcoholic drink at a bar. This law seems to mean nothing to the staff here, who refused to serve my friend because his passport was not American. Despite showing them the literal official article stating this, they claimed there was “nothing they could do.” There is no excuse for this blatant discrimination. I worry how they would react to someone with a passport from a nonwhite country. Will...

Been there a few times, drinks are good but tonight the bouncer couldn’t figure out how there ID scanner worked and told me my driver license was fake. I had to pull out my passport but that wasn’t enough, it wasn’t until he allowed me to check in using my phone number that he let me into the bar and returned my ID, I walked out and went to Corner Pocket...