Responsible service of alcohol is really important for the working professional bartender and for the home bartender, if you are going to have party, I will get to that in a minute, but just be aware as a customer that we are here to make sure you have a great time, absolutely, but there is some real liability. Now I am not going to get into this, because it changes from province to province, state to state, country to country, but overall be aware of that the bar and the bartender personally can be held responsible if the patron goes out and is in intoxicated state and gets in an accident, talking or driving in of course or any other thing.
So, it's no longer a job that you can say, hey, I just work here. It doesn't make any difference. So, there's a lot debate into what's fair about the law. I don't want to get into that, but the reality is that we are here to protect you. We are here to make sure you have a great time and make sure you get home safely. So, if someone actually does catch you off or a friend, try to cut him some slack because we are doing this for you and we want to make sure you get home safely, everybody has a good time.
Now when you have a home party, a lot of people don't know this that you have the same liability that a bar does. So if you invite guest into your home and you serve with an alcohol, even just casually and they go and get an accident, they can sue you, because you serve them the alcohol. A lot of people don't know that. So when we go and do performances and special catering stuff, we really make sure that the client knows that everybody here is liable. So make sure that you have fun.
One thing I would like to do at a home party is what's called a Key Master. I got this out of a movie, actually John Cusack, does it say anything? Now don't quote me on that, but it's John Cusack and basically what it is, when you have a house party, you have a key master at the door. A man and woman I think works really well and they are like a big help. Someone walks in the door. They drive in and they give you the keys. They hold at the end of the night and at the end of the night, they judge whether you are okay to drive or not, alright. It's kind of a self policing system and that seems to works really well, but main thing, it is the dangerous thing. So be careful with it. Please don't drink and drive.
