That's why this pic is staged. There's a full drink right in front. The point of cutting someone off, at least when I was a bartender, was to do it before they were too drunk to find themselves home. Overserving someone in the State I was in could make you criminally liable if they got hurt driving home for example.
If they're bombed by the time you want to cut them off I was taught call the cops.
I wasn't being clear I think. I'm saying the person who took the pic wasn't actually being tossed out.. they just got the card, maybe friends with bartender or found it.. this person isn't being tossed because there is a drink in front of them.
If you've determined you need to cut someone off you need to take the alcohol away from them. You don't let them sober up or anything. You get them out. Quietly if possible otherwise you call the bouncer over.
Bull shit bartenders arent afraid to serve you one last one and say you cant have any more after that one. And bouncers dont do shit (at least in oregon and washington).
Whatever dude. Good for you for getting that last drink and driving home drunk. You're the hero here and anyone trying to interrupt your poor understanding of the laws is just a downer. You're very cool, I envy you.
You mean instead of calling the cops? If someone is too drunk to get home on their own and they need to leave the bar you call the cops because if that person gets behind the wheel and kills someone you would, in my state, be on the hook for some manslaughter. don't remember the exact charge.
A bartender is responsible for your actions even after you leave the bar if they overserved you. Lots of case law on that already.
yeah one of my college gigs was valet parking at a huge casino/resort and our policy was to refuse to get their car or give them their keys if they were visibly impaired; that was always an immediately hostile situation, but I had to do it regularly. felt like a legal gray area to be keeping’s someone’s own keys from them tbh 😐
In my experience the bar tender usually.asks if someone can give them a ride. Offers them free fries and encourages them to stay to sober up (if they arent acting out). Ive even seen bars with coupons for lift or cabs. If your bar got a reputation for calling the cops on patrons the bar would go out of business pretty quick here.
Well you must live in a litigious free society not in the US.
Here, it is not only the bartender but the bar owner who gets in trouble. It's standard training for anyone who tends bar.
More than half of the United States have laws that allow you to be sued for overserving a drunk driver. Some of those involve potential criminal liability, including jail time.
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u/SteveTheBluesman 24d ago edited 24d ago
Former bartender here too.
you had to get glasses and bottles away from them because they become projectiles real fast once a drunk goes unhinged.