The New York bar Auction House is one of several bars and lounges to impose age restrictions, banning customers under 25 on Fridays and Saturdays. Troy Hahn
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Some bars and eateries are banning 20-somethings. Can it become a widespread practice?
When Johnny B. Barounis opened The Auction House in New York’s Upper East Side in 1993, he knew he wanted to deter a certain type of customer in their early 20s — in his words, “those kids that had their flannel shirts tied around their waists, wearing their Villanova hats backwards, walking around in the street with their Amstel Light in their hand.”
