IF A SERVER KNOWS A REGULAR GUEST GETS ROWDY AFTER A FEW DRINKS, CAN THEY REFUSE TO SERVE THEM ALCOHOL, EVER THOUGH THE PERSON IS SOBER, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO AVOID THE AFTERMATH?
2006-07-12 00:44:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
In some states in the USA it is perfectly legal for a bartender to do this. In fact they can get in trouble if it can be prooven that they served the person knowing the results.
Of course in the USA establishment owners are allowed to refuse service to any customer. Although if it is because of discrimination that can cause trouble.
2006-07-12 00:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Taztug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES a buisness has the legal right to refuse buisness to anyone they want. That is why most hang a sign saying we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. They still have the right even without that sign though. What is more likely though is they will proably give the person watered down drinks from the start. If the person was an alcoholic they may not even realize it. I remember the one time my friends and I were at a bar drinking, he was so drunk they were watering down his drinks. He thought the one might be and I tasted it, now having not even HAD that kind of drink, I could tell that yea they had watered it down. On the other hand he liked it that way.
2006-07-12 00:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Any privately owned business reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.
2006-07-12 00:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have the right to refuse service to them
2006-07-12 00:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by miketorse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in australia bartenders are legally required to REFUSE to serve them - its called 'responsible serving of alcohol'
2006-07-12 00:48:02 · answer #5 · answered by Ivanhoe Fats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bartender can refuse to serve ANYONE, at ANYTIME, for no reason at all.
2006-07-12 00:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in no way. He does have an ethical and criminal duty to refuse service to someone who's intoxicated, notwithstanding the alcoholic status is unknown and in no way his reponsibility.
2016-11-01 21:58:19 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have the right because the troublemakers are creating havoc in private property. the manager and bouncers have every right to chase the troublemakers out of the premises.
2006-07-12 01:05:40 · answer #8 · answered by san_pellegrino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good bartender will in-fact consider this a RESPONSIBILITY. Waitstaff should also.
2006-07-12 00:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of course, if someone is in toxicated or is making trouble you can even kick them out
2006-07-12 00:49:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋