How To Be A Bartender - How Much Drinking is Too Much?

How much drinking is too much? How does a bartender know when to cut someone off at the bar?
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Cutting someone off from drinking can be one of the toughest things to do as a bartender. Check out this snippet from our Free Bartending Course. In this short clip, Damian from The Liquid Kitty (www.thekitty.com/) talks about how he handles situations like this.
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How To Be A Bartender - How Much Drink is Too Much?
Knowing somebody off is a tricky business, If somebody comes in and you haven't serve them anything yet and they seem intoxicated, they're tripping, they’re slurring their speech. According to Law, according to Vice Caps not the law but the Vice Caps advice that they will tell that maybe that person is handicap maybe they have speech impairment, you wanna avoid insulting somebody and possible lawsuit I can't serve you a drunk, I’m handicap you wanna avoid that situation. So the best way to asses somebodies level of drunkenness is the way they handle their money. If somebody comes the bar and you form a drink and then they pull out money like, and it’s a mess probably drunk it doesn’t matter in your handicap or have speech impairment you're always gonna handle your money cleanly, that’s how the vice caps kinda recommend you watch people, so the combination of the lot of things, when somebody first comes in it’s very difficult to asses whether your drunk or they’re handicap or they speech impairment, somebody comes in and they are normal and they had three drinks they're drunk there’s no doubt about it, they’re drunk no matter what they say, I don’t care how much a great drinker they handle it their drunk so legally you cut them off anytime, I know people who have some three drinks they’re on the floor, I know people who got three drinks and they have three more and you never know legally they’re gonna blow you away there’s no doubt about it, so it’s always on you, it’s a very subjective thing to have deal with for me personally the line id cross when they become obnoxious to other customer that for me is the sign to say “look you’re done, I can’t serve anymore, why? You’ve done A,B and C, I would couple specific things in my mind to explain to them, it’s very difficult to reason to somebody whose drunk they don’t have reason, you never gonna in that argument. So I will stay calm never get upset because many got upset, now there’s a fight, so I always stay calm, if you’re lucky enough to have a doorman, my way of doing things is once I see there might be a problem i’ll go tell the door guys, this guy this person A might be a problem to what’s going on, they know all my info so they go after, this guy gonna go and they’ll like woah, and they drag even without any rivak reason if we stay on communication it makes a lot easier, so i’ll try to reason for the person a little bit tryna lose my temper and if gets to the point where they’re angry then i;ll call the door man and escort them out. Nine times out of ten when i'm nice to them and I say look, I can’t serve you anymore, come back tomorrow i’ll buy you a drink from me will have a drink together and usually I swear to god ninety out of ten times they leave on their own accord.

[@exodus7589]

Come on three drinks you're drunk! I hope this doesn't include beer cuz if it is that's just wrong.

[@DriftyAlison0]

Some people are really like that.