City Council KILLS local business!

Rockin’ Sushi can’t sell liquor
The Orange City Council on Tuesday pulls permit on troubled nightclub/restaurant.

By COURTNEY BACALSO STAFF WRITER - OC Register

The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pull an operating permit from Quan’s Rockin’ Sushi, meaning that the restaurant/nightclub won’t be able to serve alcohol.

The ruling went into effect Wednesday.

While numerous people spoke on the issue at previous public hearings in front of the Planning Commission and the council, no one spoke at Tuesday’s meeting – including council members.

The decision comes on the heels of a city-compiled, 2,100-plus page report about the 265 arrests and hundreds of other incidents tied to Quan’s patrons and employees since 1999. By revoking the business’s conditional-use permit to serve liquor, the business will not be able to serve alcohol or provide entertainment but can continue on its restaurant business at the site, 1107 N. Tustin St.

Attempts to reach Quan’s owner Tuesday evening for comment were unsuccessful. Previously, Robert Drieslein, who bought the business in September, said he inherited some of the problems and expected this type of outcome.

“I am just going to have to chalk up my losses,” he said in a previous interview.

The state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control had already decided to suspend the business’ liquor license for 65 days beginning May 3. The suspension was handed down because the club allegedly sold alcohol to minors, and for an abnormally high number of police calls, said ABC spokesman John Carr.

More than 60 Quan’s patrons have been arrested on drunken-driving charges since 1999 – four of those arrests were for people under the age of 21, the city report says. In the same time span, there were 79 alcohol-related arrests involving minors and 16 assaultrelated arrests, the report says.

City officials delivered the notice to the business owners Wednesday.

This marks the second time in the city’s history that an operating permit has been pulled. In 1995, a local teen club in West Orange was shut down.