Responsibly serving liquor is probably the biggest way to show customers you value them. After all, you don’t want to see a patron who’s had too much to drink get behind the wheel of a car and hurt himself or someone else. Therefore, if you are planning on serving liquor at your new restaurant, than you should be familiar with all your state liquor laws. While liquor laws vary from state to state, in most cases if a person is involved in an accident while drunk you, as the owner of the establishment that served them, may be held liable as well. It is also important that your wait staff understand how to identify a person who is intoxicated, so they don’t serve (or continue to serve) them. Occasionally you may have to deal with a patron who’s more than a little tipsy.