A Georgia mother is furious after a downtown Atlanta restaurant accidentally served alcoholic drinks to young kids at a birthday party, with the youngest being three years old.
Souljah Perdue says the group was there to celebrate her 11-year-old daughter’s birthday, but things went sour while they were at the Sugar Factory eatery.
“I couldn’t believe it. It’s something I have never heard of. I was really like, how could they make this mistake?” the mother told WSB.
Perdue recorded a video of her 11-year-old daughter’s birthday dinner at the restaurant located off Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta on Thursday.
Perdue said the restaurant gave her and her guests complimentary drinks to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. However, the kids were supposed to get juice and alcoholic shots for the adults, or so Perdue thought.
“This tastes really like a shot. Mine tastes really like a shot,” said Perdue. “I start looking around. I’m looking at my daughter, and I’m seeing the other kids, and they’re making these faces. ‘I think it has liquor in it.’ I told the manager what happened, and he’s looking disturbed, he’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I told them non-alcoholic shots,” said Perdue.
A video reportedly captured an employee admitting there was alcohol in the drinks given to the children.
“There was Coconut Rum and Pineapple Juice. It’s a .5 of Coconut rum. I accept full responsibility. Nothing should have come out of my bar that I’m aware of. And it should have not been made.”
Perdue says she was told the restaurant’s corporate office would contact her but said:
“They’re not answering no calls. They’re like nothing happened.” However, a spokesperson told the publication that the restaurant was “researching this feedback.”
