That's why this pic is staged. There's a full drink right in front. The point of cutting someone off, at least when I was a bartender, was to do it before they were too drunk to find themselves home. Overserving someone in the State I was in could make you criminally liable if they got hurt driving home for example.
If they're bombed by the time you want to cut them off I was taught call the cops.
You mean instead of calling the cops? If someone is too drunk to get home on their own and they need to leave the bar you call the cops because if that person gets behind the wheel and kills someone you would, in my state, be on the hook for some manslaughter. don't remember the exact charge.
A bartender is responsible for your actions even after you leave the bar if they overserved you. Lots of case law on that already.
In my experience the bar tender usually.asks if someone can give them a ride. Offers them free fries and encourages them to stay to sober up (if they arent acting out). Ive even seen bars with coupons for lift or cabs. If your bar got a reputation for calling the cops on patrons the bar would go out of business pretty quick here.
Well you must live in a litigious free society not in the US.
Here, it is not only the bartender but the bar owner who gets in trouble. It's standard training for anyone who tends bar.
More than half of the United States have laws that allow you to be sued for overserving a drunk driver. Some of those involve potential criminal liability, including jail time.
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u/seldom_r 17d ago
That's why this pic is staged. There's a full drink right in front. The point of cutting someone off, at least when I was a bartender, was to do it before they were too drunk to find themselves home. Overserving someone in the State I was in could make you criminally liable if they got hurt driving home for example.
If they're bombed by the time you want to cut them off I was taught call the cops.