Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael decide to go into business together. Each take a $25\%$ stake in the Planet of the Grapes wine shop. They license it with a type $20$ off sale beer and wine license $($retail$).$ Rocksteady and Bebop run Shredder Distribution, LLC$,$ a local distributor holding a type $17($wholesale$)$ license. Determine if there a California tied house violation in light of the following $($ask yourself is there a prohibited act? If so$,$ is there an exception?$)$:

a$)$ Shredder Distribution, LLC$,$ pays a third party commercial printing company to print and deliver a tasting menu for a consumer tasting to be held at Planet of the Grape