My concern is the moral aspect of preparing drinks served to people who make bad descisíons when intoxicated.
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I read all of the replies to where this will get posted.
Part of alcoholic beverage training is to watch the customers to ensure that you do not serve them if they are even close to being inebriated...because YOU are legally liable and responsible if they get a DUI or a wreck while driving drunk. Yeah....serious business....you don't ever serve anyone that is tipsy. You can't afford the fallout. Even if they claim to have a designated driver.
Usually the limit is 2 drinks for the big guy and one for the ladies or small guys....with dinner.
You aren't a bar...you are going to work in a restaurant that serves drinks/wine with food. The old clichés have been gone since the '90's. And if the restaurant you work in doesn't want to follow the law....GET GONE....jobs are a dime a dozen.
But all that being said....there are functions of drinks with food....to increase appetite or aide in digestion or make the good, rich food taste better.
I cook a LOT with wine and liquors....don't drink much but I will on rare occasion. I don't have time or temperament to drink much....plus the hangovers at my age really suck.
A "perfect Manhattan" doesn't mean a normal one without it dripping down the side of the glass. A Cranberry Kir-Royale is a great before dinner drink that makes you ravenous.
Wine, dine, route 9.....
Schmooze em, Booze em, and lose em. That's how you make money waiting tables....practice being sycophantic know it all.