For about the last 8/9 years, right from when it first opened, we have been regular diners at a local restaurant that has limited opening hours. It's privately run, in premises owned by a business that my DH is on the management committee of. The restaurant is run independently of the premises, they just charge rent & a small profit share.
In the early days it was very quiet and probably a bit "niche", but as time passed it's got a lot more popular and now does a lot of business in private functions such as birthday parties, weddings etc.
The original restaurant manager has recently retired and his son has taken over.
The Management Committee has been hearing allegations that for some time there has been a scam involving alcohol. Like substituting cheap spirits for the branded ones in the optics, and cheap wine in labelled bottles (screw tops so easy to do). A friend "in the know" reckons this sort of thing is commonplace in the licensing trade.
I have had my suspicions that something was amiss when my Bombay Sapphire gin definitely wasn't, and a bottle of red wine was nothing like the previous one with the same label.
Is it fair to assume the son will have learned these practices from his father?
and legally, is there anything that can be done? I guess Trading Standards would be the first port of call but it wouldn't do any good unless they visited on spec.