The extent of a bartender’s responsibility in terms of not letting a customer drive home drunk

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Term is “Dram shop law,” it is sometimes statutory sometimes common law based, and your answer varies state-to-state.

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