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Subject: Re: In CA, is it illegal to give a customer a free drink/shot?
From: Boston Shaker
Posted: Tue Jun 3. 2008, 06:04 UTC
Followup to: "In CA, is it illegal to give a customer a free drink/shot?"  by micah  (Sun Jun 1. 2008, 02:52 UTC)
I moved away from California before I was old enough to drink, so I don't know 
much about the liquor laws there. However, I can answer your question about 
spill sheets.

A "spill sheet" (also commonly referred to as a "waste sheet") is just a sheet 
of paper used to record product that was spilled, spoiled, prepared in error, 
or otherwise disposed of without being paid for. Newer restaurants and bars, 
and large chains that regularly update their systems company-wide, generally 
have software sophisticated enough to make such accounting systems cumbersome 
and obsolete; it's better to just enter the wasted product into the computer 
and void it, rather than tallying the inventory by hand. However, plenty of 
older stand-alone operations still use them.

I wouldn't be surprised if many establishments used waste sheets to record 
complimentary drinks, although all the places I've worked in have either 
prohibited them, or have required them to be input normally into the system, 
then comped by a manager. If giving away drinks is illegal somewhere, putting 
free drinks on a waste sheet would help hide the practice from the 
authorities, but I can't imagine it would make it any more legal.


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