Smile during visits to The Frog Tavern.The establishment has a dozen surveillance cameras inside the facility and another dozen monitoring the parking lot. With two violations for serving alcohol to underage customers in the same number of years, owner Michael Kudak, president and secretary of The Frog, has taken extraordinary measures to avoid further fines. The violations, occurring in the summer of 1999 and on Dec.24, 2000, were heard in Indianapolis.Fines were levied and paid. Kudak appeared before Kosciusko County Alcoholic Beverage Commissioners Gordon Vanator and Kenneth Johnson Thursday to say what he's done to avoid further difficulties. The Frog pays security personnel, preferably married individuals, $12 per hour to check identification at the entrances beginning at 5 p.m., and has servers check IDs again before serving any alcohol. The cameras can be used to monitor employees to be sure all IDs are being checked.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016