PREVENTING DUIS

One of the many rules with regard to the consumption of alcohol deals with knowing your limit.  If you’re not aware of your limit, staff at the bar or the restaurant you’re drinking at have the obligation and responsibility of telling you about it and refusing you service.  The same goes with entering a bar or a restaurant already intoxicated.  If the bartender recognizes you’re already drunk (which they will), it’s part of their duties to refuse you service.  The thing is when you’re intoxicated, you won’t be functioning to the best of your abilities and you’re a danger to yourself and to others.  As prescribed by law, bartenders and restaurant staff are liable for any accident that happens due to an intoxicated person’s actions.  It doesn’t really matter if they got intoxicated in your bar or not.

Part of the training bartenders have is to spot the signs that someone is already intoxicated.  As a bartender, you have to refuse service and call the person a cab so they can get home safely.  The basic premise is, it’s your bar, you’re serving alcoholic beverages and so you’re also responsible.  Under the law, bartenders and restaurant staff aren’t only there to serve.  They also have to determine a person’s age especially if they’re ordering alcoholic beverages.  Together with this, they also have to stop serving alcoholic drinks to people who are already intoxicated.  When bartenders refuse to give you more drinks when they see that you’re already impaired because of the alcoholic drinks, the law is on their side.  The bottom line would be that they’re acting responsibly in the name of giving quality service and the law.

Liability extends to the establishment that serves alcoholic beverages and the people working in the establishment and so even if an intoxicated person goes out of the bar and hits his head and suits for damages, they’re going to have a viable case.  Again, it won’t matter if they got intoxicated someplace else and that is why you as a bartender or server have to recognize the signs of intoxication and refuse service to intoxicated people.