A New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control investigation has found that 29 bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, allegedly substituted cheap booze (or worse!) while charging for premium drinks:

At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water โ€” and apparently not even clean water at that.

In January and February, investigators went to 63 establishments they suspected were scamming liquor customers. They ordered drinks neat โ€” that is, without ice or mixers โ€” and then covertly took samples for testing.

Of 150 samples collected, 30 were not the brand as which they were being sold.

Why can't government regulators leave the market to sort this out for itself? Nanny-statism at its worst!