AMERICAN CANYON — American City Council members took a break from budget minutia and subdivision applications to weigh whether Bottoms Up Espresso is in reality a “bikini café” that qualifies as adult entertainment.

The unanimous verdict at Tuesday’s hearing was to uphold a city manager’s decision revoking the Bottoms Up Espresso business license to operate at the 3939 Broadway drive-through kiosk formerly used by Caffino. The council ruled that an adult entertainment aspect of the business ran afoul of city code.

City Council member David Oro successfully pushed for a vote that night rather than grant the applicant’s request for more time to respond to the city’s arguments. He showed a photo of scantily clad female baristas from a Bottoms Up Espresso franchise in another city.

“Let’s call it what it is – adult entertainment,” Oro said.

Attorney Ralph Andino on behalf of Mudwater LCC, the local Bottoms Up Espresso franchisee, said that the local business was just getting started when it lost the business license. He said no city official had seen an employee there wearing the supposedly objectionable attire.