The restaurant was given a warning by the city License Commission after a hearing Jan. 7.
The violation was the second for the restaurant since 2018, which concerned Commissioner Barbara Haller, who said she knows Uno has a very strict policy when it comes to asking customers for identification.
But Haller said a plea for mercy from Uno s lawyer, Mark Borenstein, who outlined the restaurant s revenue losses, convinced her to soften the sentence.
So instead of shutting the restaurant down, Commission Chairman Walter Shea and Commissioner Anthony Vigliotti voted with Haller to issue a hardship warning, even though the incident happened before the pandemic began.