Review
Now that you have read through the material for this section, test your knowledge with the following activities. If you have difficulty, go back to the relevant page(s) to review the information presented.
Case Studies
Select a case study for review. Determine if the patron is intoxicated or not and justify your answer. Click "reveal answer" to compare your answer to the correct response.
Your answer
Intoxicated
REASON: Poor eye-hand coordination (spilling the wine), changes in speech (speech volume and laughter are too loud for the situation), acts inappropriately (calls the busboy "darlin").
Your answer
Sober
REASON: They are cutting back the amount of beer, they are ordering food, and their behaviour is appropriate for the situation.
Questions to ask at work
- Are there myths about alcohol that are still treated as truths in our establishment?
- Are we aware of the alcohol levels of all the drinks we serve?
- Do we look for signs of intoxication in guests prior to serving alcohol?
- Can we recognize behaviour that is drug related?
Quick review test
Identify if the sentence is True or False:
1. The liver can only process a fixed amount of alcohol, which is about one standard drink per hour.
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2. Mixing drinks (for example, having both beer and wine) causes greater intoxication.
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3. Gender, body weight and food consumption all influence how quickly alcohol affects a patron.
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4. Combining drugs with alcohol reduces the effects.
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5. The only accurate way to measure BAC is to count standard drinks.
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