Aspen Highlands Closing Day party has reached legendary status.Each year, it's a bigger deal. This year, for the first time in my almost 10 years, they actually brought in porta-potties.
There was a pond skimming contest, a live band, a DJ, costumes and a ton of craziness.
The bartenders inside were mixing vodka and cranberries in beer pitchers and margaritas in ice buckets and all the drinks were subject to some seriously heavy pours.
The only downer was the rather contemptuous attitude ZG Grill, the party's host, has towards its customers. They usually have a $20 minimum for credit cards but today they jacked it up to a $40 minimum and of course, the local ATM was out of order.
In addition, they had huge signs saying "NO FREE WATER. BOTTLED WATER $2"
The former violates their merchant agreement with Visa/Mastercard and I've got to think that the latter violates liquor laws.
But who's telling?
2 comments:
It does gall me when a merchant makes it hard for you to spend money or rather to pay for something. Once the ATM broke, they should have relented and taken cards for $20.
Well, given the fact that Visa/Mastercard merchant agreements require merchants to treat credit cards the same as cash and not have any minimum, even $20 galls me.
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