Every 39 minutes, someone dies on America’s roadways because of a drunk driver.
Millions more are getting injured, harmed, and maimed. Often it is the innocent who get slaughtered while the drunk driver walks away with barely a scratch.
These horrific scenes play out every single day from sea to shining sea and in every neck of the woods across this country.
That’s not even to mention the countless bar fights, rapes, slip and falls, and other senseless and mostly preventable injuries, incidents, accidents, and events that take place due to alcohol consumption, the over-serving of alcohol, and belligerent intoxication that takes place with many of these cases be connected to restaurants and bars and restaurant and bar employers and employees serving up the drinks.
So, what’s happening in America’s restaurants and bars?!?
Only the most dangerous and destructive hazard to hit the hospitality industry – ever.
The overserving of alcohol!
The carnage is piling up and the lawsuits and insurance claims have sky-rocketed to record levels. Worst of all – the problem is not getting any better. In fact, it is getting much worse.
The Death Toll is Piling Up
I (Howard Cannon) have been a court-testifying Forensic Scientist, consultant, and expert witness specializing exclusively in the restaurant and bar industry since I started my company in 1987. I have dealt with a potpourri of cases that even I can hardly wrap my head around – nasty and sickening incidents that have happened in restaurants, bars, and various dram shops across the country.
I’ve dealt with horrific rapes, murders, wrongful deaths, catastrophic injuries, and violent and tragic incidents that are truly mind-boggling. I don’t care how long I do this – I never get used to the loss of life and limb.
In my decades of working in and testifying about this incredibly important industry, I have come to discover that it is also America’s most dangerous industry – an industry riddled with ignorance, apathy, laziness, and mediocrity.
Sadly, many in the hospitality industry are lackadaisical about the single most important service that they should be offering the public: personal safety in a hospitality environment.
Unfortunately, the lax attitude of far too many restaurant and bar owners and managers – and the hospitality industry employees that work for them, all too often gets employees and customers injured, maimed, raped, or killed – and often times it is because someone just wants and needs another drink, even when all visible signs say – they have had their fill.
When the safety, health, and security of people becomes a significant and catastrophic problem that is that widespread, you can count on the lawsuits and insurance claims coming in droves.
These lawsuits and insurance claims are not only crippling the victims, but also crippling the entrepreneurial dreams of owners and destroying the careers of the managers that were placed in charge.
Often, these cases come down to a few simple things like training, hazard awareness, management oversight, culture of the organization and of course – RECOGNIZING THE SIGNS OF VISIBLE INTOXICATION
In fact, I published a book about it last year called Restaurant Ridiculous.
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