Now I know bartenders have to not over serve a customer as well as not let a clearly drunk customer drive home, they even have to take courses/get a license to serve.
Say a drunk customer at the end of the night goes to leave (the bartender knows they plan on driving) at that point the bartender should say to the drunk customer “hey I cant let you drive home, you have to call a ride/walk/ or we will even call an Uber for you”
but let’s say the customer refuses and does not comply? Is the bartender supposed to just take the car keys anyway and not let them leave? What is the bartender supposed to do?
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This would only become an issue if the driver hit someone – injured someone. In this case the injured person will hire an attorney. The attorney is going to go after every single angle they can think of which will include the restaurant, bar, server, valet person, everything and everyone will be contacted. If the lawyer thinks there is a chance to get more money, they will continue with charges.
In your example, if the bartender tried to stop the driver and did everything they could to prevent the driver from driving drunk, they are safe. But you never know. Depends on so many things.
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