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 varies significantly based on state and local laws, but from my understanding it’s pretty hard for a bartender to actually get in trouble for over serving someone. You’d generally have to prove that the bartender could tell that they were far too intoxicated than is safe and intentionally kept serving them in order to cause them harm, either purposefully or due to negligence.
Realistically I feel like it would have to be someone who like can’t speak or stand and the bartender is still serving them multiple drinks.
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