Ohio State Bar Owner Turns Bar Into Mexican Restaurant Because It’s Wrong for Students to Get “Blackout Drunk”

Three years after owner Chris Flores opened the Sloppy Donkey bar near the Ohio State University campus, he decided he no longer wanted to contribute to students getting “blackout drunk.” Flores told the Ohio State University Lantern God spoke to him and made him realize it was a better idea to turn the Sloppy Donkey into a Mexican restaurant. Las Maracas is scheduled to open later this month.

(For the record, about three-quarters of the approximately 2,100 Ohio State students responding to a 2009 American College Health
Association survey reported having at least one drink in the past 30 days. About 40 percent reported having more than four drinks the last time they “partied.”)

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• Source: Thelantern
• Via: Ohio State University Lantern

After running the bar for about three years, [owner Chris Flores] said he realized he no longer wanted to contribute to students getting “blackout drunk.”
“I have a really big moral dilemma with getting students really drunk,” Flores said.

He said he has always been a believer in God, but months ago, God spoke to him through multiple people and made him realize owning Sloppy Donkey was no longer what he wanted to do.

“If I say I believe in God and I am helping students, young adults to get trashed or blacked out,” Flores said. “To know I was taking part in that was a big problem for me as a believer.”

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