Where do you stand on bartenders being responsible for their patrons?

Just from looking at that picture I'd say any bartender should know not to serve that guy anything. But being that he was 19 he also could have had someone buying drinks for him and bringing them back to him.

I think they should get a real job

Personally, I don't see how you charge a bartender with a crime for doing their jobs. It seems like the next step is for people to start suing the place where the person got drunk.

If this is going to continue being the norm then bars are going to have to employ "exit bouncers" that don't let people leave the bar if they're too drunk to drive unless they have a DD or are taking a cab/uber.

I may be bias b/c I was bartender back in the day, but people are legally adults at 18. Full grown folks should be responsible for THEIR actions.

If I go out and get super fricked up and drive and kill someone, that's on me. No one else.

It all depends on the type of place where the drinking is happening too. If it's at Fred's after a gameday or a high end restaurant on a Sunday night. If you, as a bartender, can tell someone is over served and about to get behind the wheel, I feel they have an ethical and moral responsibility to ensure the guest gets home safe and alive.

On more than one occasion, I had to call cabs/ubers for guests. Now, I did not pay for them, but it was pretty simple, for where I worked, to tell someone if they get behind the wheel we would call the police.

Poncho's should've known not to serve me after I raised the flag for the 13th time to get more enchiladas. They're also responsible for paying for that toilet I broke.

They should be held partially responsible only if they didn't ID him. I really hate this blaming culture we live in now. Only one dumb arse in this scenario chose to consume those drinks and get behind the wheel and should pay the price for it.

My only experience was 15 years ago in LA, but we had to get a liquor license to serve/bartend, so there was a bit of training involved.

If there's something like that in TX, I'd say the bartender could possibly be proven to actually know or should have known (provided he was actually serving the patron directly).

Definitely a slippery slope though. Morally, of course the bartender should try to intervene. I don't agree with legally requiring babysitting of adults.

It's such a gray area IMO.

Why isn't Kroger held responsible for selling a 12 pack to a guy who is who just came in from the club at 12am? Why isn't Budweiser held responsible for making beer that people drink that kill people????! Could go on forever like this.

I'm not a big proponent of charging those people personally, but I understand if they were A party to overserving when they knew he was hammered, then yea.