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Responsible Vendor Training
| The Responsible Vendor Program requires the training of all
employees involved in the management, sale, or service of
alcoholic beverages. Training includes Alabama law regarding the
sale or service of alcohol, practical techniques for determining
if the customer is of legal age, civil and criminal penalties, and
techniques for reducing the risk inherent in the sale/service of
alcohol. Licensees who voluntarily join the program are required
to establish policies ensuring legal and responsible sales and
service, and to train employees in these policies.
For most licensees, participation in the program is voluntary.
However, Alabama law requires mandatory participation for
on-premises licensees who hold a retail restaurant license (020
license type), and who wish to hire 19- and 20- year old servers
and allow those servers to deliver alcohol to customer tables.
Otherwise, persons under the age of 21 are prohibited from
delivering the alcohol to customer tables.
Benefits of participating in the program include:
- Protection of the beverage license in the event that a
trained employee sells/serves an underage customer without the
knowledge, consent, or participation of the owner.
- Reducing the risk of dram shop lawsuits by effectively
training employees.
- Broadening the hiring base for retail restaurant licensees.
- Improving the business relationship with local communities
by preventing problem situations that can lead to fines and
bad press.
- Making communities safer by refusing sales and service to
underage and intoxicated customers.
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Ellie
Taylor, President of the Alabama Grocers Association has been approved
by the ABC board to provide training for certification in the
Responsible Vendor Program.
We offer
on-line Responsible Vendor Training through Learn Something. For more
information please
click here.
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