Higher prices aren’t the only changes in store for patrons at Round Table Pizza this semester.

At the end of last semester, a sting operation by Sacramento’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Bureau caught a Round Table employee serving alcohol to a minor.

Jerry Meier, district administrator for the ABC bureau of the Sacramento Police Department, said the sting was part of an area-wide operation. It is a standard sting within the bureau where they send an underage person into an establishment to purchase alcohol.

Meier said that the person they send in to attempt the “buy” carries their own driver’s license with the correct age listed. In the case of the Round Table sting, the employee sold the beer anyway.

Since the bust, the employee in question was fired, and the restaurant has engaged in a campaign to change its image on campus. The restaurant has stopped serving pitchers of beer, but it will continue to sell beer in glasses.

The restaurant has always had a strict policy in place to check for underage drinkers, including checking identification and issuing wristbands. Since the sting, employees also ask customers their age, and recheck the customers’ identification if they order another drink.

In the absence of the pitchers, management has offered a slightly larger 20-ounce glass in addition to the pints that have always been available.Krastaan Humble, the assistant manager at Round Table, said that serving the pitchers of beer has caused problems in the past.

“There had been complaints by people who saw students get the pitchers of beer, and then get to-go cups before they left,” Humble said. “The students would then take the cups, and then take the alcohol to class.”

Humble said that this was the first time any of their employees have been caught serving alcohol to minors.

The Pub at Riverfront Center also serves beer, but never offered pitchers. Pub employee, Sachiko Karppala said that in addition to the precautions Round Table has enacted, they scan driver’s licenses through a machine that reads the bar code on the back. This practice not only eliminates the possibility of misreading a license, but ferrets out many faked identifications, as well.

Some students are disappointed by the change, and said they appreciated the pitchers of beer Round Table offered and because the $7 pitcher was a better deal than a $3 glass of beer.

“I liked the pitchers that they used to serve,” said Todd, a student patron who asked that his last name not be used. “But I can see why they do not serve the pitcher.”

Humble also said that despite the policy changes, she has not seen any adverse effects to their volume of business, and still expects large crowds for Sacramento Kings’ games this season.

Another student patron who also declined to use her last name, Jenny, was celebrating a birthday at Round Table.

“I’m disappointed, I can’t share a pitcher with my friends on my twenty-first birthday, but at least I can still have a beer on campus.”