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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I bartend in a state that practices the Dram Shop Law, the liability is difficult to prove because some people hold their liquor better than others, and I don’t know what else you’ve had to drink. If you’re slurring your words, can’t balance, your eyes can’t focus, you you’re nodding off, you’re definitely getting cut off. While we try to get them some water and an Uber home, we’ve all had people close, leave and drive off…. You can’t stop them all. If they get pulled over they get a D.U.I., and where or what they drank isn’t considered. If they get into an accident and someone decided to sue, you and the establishment can be held liable if they can prove you got them intoxicated, but you have to be the last place they drank at, and have served them enough to have potentially gotten them to that state.
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