Would you be ticked off if a restaurant refused to serve you a cocktail for no ID?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself and the “rules don’t apply to me” mentality.

This.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would be ticked at myself for forgetting my ID and missing out.

(Actually I don’t drink and never feel like I’m missing out, but I’m playing along with the hypothetical)

[Anonymous]

It depends on stare or local law, but generally the law forbids serving minors, and carding is a business policy to make sure you don't violate that law. If they didn't card a 40 year old, and ABC were standing right there, they would not have been in trouble because they did not serve a minor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happened to my husband and I last night. No kids. Beachfront restaurant. I didn’t want to carry my purse and we were getting to-go food. While on the way, husband recommends a classic margarita. Great idea and I actually look forward to it. Female bartender who was probably just as old as us cards me! Implying we just graduated from high school two years ago? Our own kids are in middle and high school. She refuses to serve me, then when she goes to the back to get our food loudly tells the other bartender I don’t have ID and to not serve me alcohol.

No, that's not what was happening. Lol.


And no I would not be "ticked off". The potential liabilities and/or consequences for the restaurant are not worth it to them. It's not personal. You need to be prepared to show a ( valid/not expired) ID for any alcohol purchase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s what they are supposed to do.

+1 why would I be angry at someone else over what is CLEARLY my mistake?

[Anonymous]

No way they should serve you and risk losing their liquor license. Next time put your ID in your bra or give it to your husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself and the “rules don’t apply to me” mentality.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened to my husband and I last night. No kids. Beachfront restaurant. I didn’t want to carry my purse and we were getting to-go food. While on the way, husband recommends a classic margarita. Great idea and I actually look forward to it. Female bartender who was probably just as old as us cards me! Implying we just graduated from high school two years ago? Our own kids are in middle and high school. She refuses to serve me, then when she goes to the back to get our food loudly tells the other bartender I don’t have ID and to not serve me alcohol.

No, that's not what was happening. Lol.


And no I would not be "ticked off". The potential liabilities and/or consequences for the restaurant are not worth it to them. It's not personal. You need to be prepared to show a ( valid/not expired) ID for any alcohol purchase.

Please cite a source that state, commonwealth, and/local bureaucrats are doing sting operations on bars using age 21+ decoys with expired licenses or old timers who left their ID at home. This simply does not happen. They use 20 year olds and teenagers with valid teenager IDs.

[Anonymous]

It’s entirely possible the bartender was just being a b****.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s what they are supposed to do.

+1 Your ID could have been slipped into your pockets, or your husband’s. Not carrying a purse isn’t an excuse.

+2 Exactly.

[Anonymous]

She lost her job when she served a 12 year old with Progeria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way they should serve you and risk losing their liquor license. Next time put your ID in your bra or give it to your husband.

Why would they risk losing a liquor license for serving alcohol to a 40 year old with no ID? That’s just silly. There is no law in any state that requires every single person to show ID before they can purchase alcohol.

I agree OP shouldn’t be ticked off, and I don’t understand why she didn’t have her DH carry her ID. No comment on the bra suggestion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is quite literally the law.

We’ve been in the same restaurant and not been carded. Even the elderly couple next to us quipped they weren’t carded.

They are supposed to card anyone who looks 35 or younger. So of course an obviously elderly couple wouldn't be carded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is quite literally the law.

We’ve been in the same restaurant and not been carded. Even the elderly couple next to us quipped they weren’t carded.

They are supposed to card anyone who looks 35 or younger. So of course an obviously elderly couple wouldn't be carded.

As someone who used to work in service, the rule is technically under 35 but we pretty much asked for ID from anyone who wasn’t grey haired and looking 80+. With all the work people are getting done 19-year-olds are out here looking like 45-year-olds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happened to my husband and I last night. No kids. Beachfront restaurant. I didn’t want to carry my purse and we were getting to-go food. While on the way, husband recommends a classic margarita. Great idea and I actually look forward to it. Female bartender who was probably just as old as us cards me! Implying we just graduated from high school two years ago? Our own kids are in middle and high school. She refuses to serve me, then when she goes to the back to get our food loudly tells the other bartender I don’t have ID and to not serve me alcohol.

No, that's not what was happening. Lol.


And no I would not be "ticked off". The potential liabilities and/or consequences for the restaurant are not worth it to them. It's not personal. You need to be prepared to show a ( valid/not expired) ID for any alcohol purchase.

Please cite a source that state, commonwealth, and/local bureaucrats are doing sting operations on bars using age 21+ decoys with expired licenses or old timers who left their ID at home. This simply does not happen. They use 20 year olds and teenagers with valid teenager IDs.

None of this matters. Rules are rules and we should just do the right thing. Bring an ID.