Ficheras

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An appeals court in Texas <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fichera.pdf"><strong>upheld</strong></a> a ruling in favor of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s decision to cancel a bar’s alcoholic beverage permit based on the presence of “ficheras,” who are women that sit with male customers at bars, get them to buy a drink for an inflated price, and receive a ticket or cash from the bar for each drink they help sell. </span>

FORT WORTH – An appeals court sided with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on canceling a bar’s alcoholic beverage permit based on the presence of “ficheras,” who are women that sit with male customers at bars, get them to buy a drink for an inflated price, and receive a ticket or cash from the bar for each drink they help sell.

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