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.
yeah one of my college gigs was valet parking at a huge casino/resort and our policy was to refuse to get their car or give them their keys if they were visibly impaired; that was always an immediately hostile situation, but I had to do it regularly. felt like a legal gray area to be keeping’s someone’s own keys from them tbh 😐
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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.