Typically, underage sales happen because your employees feel a pressure to be quick (especially when very busy), because of a pushy customer, because your employee has of a lack of attention to detail, or because they simply don’t care enough – there is no “reason” for them to take the extra step. There is a solution to this problem of Not Caring enough to ask for the identification. Training.
First of all: your employees need to understand what happens when they are CAUGHT serving a minor and how much it can hurt your business and them, personally.
- Serving a minor is a Class 1 Misdemeanor
- Serving a minor can result in $2,500 fines
- Serving a minor can result in 12 months in jail
- Serving a minor will cause them to lose work hours from court time
- Serving a minor will give them a CRIMINAL record, for the rest of their lives
All of these consequences from being lazy and/or untrained. Those repercussions are for your employee. Training will help them care. But why should YOU, the business owner care?
- For the business, the fines and repercussions can be even stiffer
- You’ll have a VA ABC Authority Hearing, heavy fines and you can have your license suspended or revoked.
- There can even be civil penalties against the establishment.
The better and cheaper (and easier) way to keep you both out of jail and out of trouble with VA ABC Authority only costs $29.95!
And when your employees have quality training and knowledge – it is powerful. Their confidence grows and they become a higher-quality employee, to you. All for $29.95!
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