And you thought you knew what it was to go bar-hopping.
Detective Bryan Moore has you beat.
As the Newport Beach Police Department’s Alcohol Beverage Control department liaison, detective Moore has the monumental task of hitting every upscale restaurant, trendy 20-something party spot and dimly-lit dive bar in Newport Beach by July of next year if they have a permit to serve alcohol. Add in another 60 off-sale establishments — liquor stores and the like — and Moore will be visiting 400 locations by June 30, 2009.
No, Moore is not sampling drinks. Instead, as the police department’s go-to guy for making sure the city’s alcohol establishments are up to code, he visits a few each day and inspects them for various Department of Alcohol Beverage Control violations, or ABC violations.