Pizzeria Fined After Complaints About Nudity

MOSES LAKE - A popular pizza parlor has been fined for exposing parents and children in its main dining room to strippers performing at a bachelor party in back.

Chico's Pizza Parlor has made alterations to ensure there are no further incidents, manager Mitch Zornes said Wednesday.

The Washington State Liquor Control Board fined the restaurant $1,750 for allowing suggestive, lewd or obscene conduct and for failing to control the conduct of patrons in the July 31 incident.

The Ephrata man who filed the complaint said he was speechless with shock when a windowless door to the back room opened and revealed a woman clad only in a G-string, according to the board's report.

"That girl didn't have any clothes on, daddy," the complainant quoted his 8-year-old son as saying.

Zornes said he heard a commotion during the hourlong bachelor party, but did not realize family diners were being exposed to goings-on in the back room.

The man who booked the room did not make clear strippers were expected at the party, and Zornes said the restaurant would not have agreed to their performing on the premises.

A window has been installed on the back-room door so management can monitor parties, he said.

"We've never had a problem for 30 years," Zornes said. "They caught us a little off guard."