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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It’s usually not the bartender who will get in legal trouble (unless it’s documented they were pouring shots down the throat of someone trying to refuse), the one at risk is the license holder, who could permanently lose that ability to serve along with various civil charges.
That being said, if a patron is drunk, clearly intending to drive, the best the bartender (or other staff) can do if they won’t stay, call 911 follow them to their car and provide all the info possible so the police can hopefully stop things before it gets worse.
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