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BBC News
30-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey sees 38-year drink promotion ban lifted
A 38-year ban on drink promotions in Jersey has been lifted, the hospitality association has Licensing Assembly removed the restrictions on drinks promotions in venues, after it said the ban had led to increased at home drinking and binge lift of the ban means venues are able to offer drink promotions such as happy hour and two-for-one Jersey Hospitality Association (JHA) said it welcomed the lift on guidance. Marcus Calvani from the JHA said he hoped lifting the ban on drinks promotions would give businesses more said: "So, businesses can do anything they want - it can operate in whatever capacity it wants, they still need to remain in a responsible [way] and not enticing people to drink to excess."As an establishment if you see somebody who's intoxicated who enters you shouldn't be serving them, if somebody becomes intoxicated on your premises you shouldn't be serving them and we hope that people are responsible and as human beings we look after one another." Mr Calvani said he hoped the lift would encourage more people to go said: "People can come out for our community, people will socialise and we certainly hope that the industry thrives a little bit better in very challenging times."We hope also that everybody goes out [and] has some fun, obviously behaves responsibly, but this is positive for everyone - visitors and islanders."The JHA said it wrote to the Attorney General at the beginning of 2024 to lift the restrictions of the law. It argued it had "caused a growing gap between on and off-trade prices" which had led to increased at home drinking and binge drinking. Jersey landlord Simon Soar said times had changed since the restrictions were first introduced and that it may not be viable for businesses to offer too many discounts."We're not going to see drinks promotions like they used to be decades ago because the price of margins don't exist any more and they haven't existed for a long time. "That, coupled with the fact people don't go out as much as they used to makes it a lot more difficult to make any form of profits in the industry." 'Inclusive and fair' Jo Ferbrache, who campaigns for people who do not drink alcohol, said the industry needed to make sure that there were fair deals on non-alcoholic drinks too."I think it's really important that they have the same promotions on the alcohol free offering too, so if they're going to do a two-for-one make sure that that's the same thing for those who aren't drinking, just to ensure that it's inclusive and fair," she Leather is a recovering alcoholic and is worried that the law change could encourage people to drink too said it was important for people to decide why they were going out and who they were going with."I think that it's important to just be honest with yourself around the people that you're going out with and maybe the intention of why you're drinking," she said.
CTV News
28-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Tightened rules to curb intoxication at Windsor-Essex restaurants
Waitress, Arianna Belanger, preparing and serving drinks at Chuck's Roadhouse and Grill on Huron Church Road in Windsor, Ont. (Stefanie Masotti/CTV News Windsor) A local restaurant owner is working to curb intoxication, putting guidelines in place. He has enforced stricter guidelines on the number of alcoholic beverages a guest can be served. 'Every day we open the news. We hear a drunk driver hit some family,' said Karthikeyan Subramaniam, owner of seven Chuck's Roadhouse and Grill locations. 'As a businessman, I'm here to make money. But at the same time, I don't want to be an unethical human being. To ignore the safety of my staff, customers, and public just for another few drinks.' Subramaniam distributed an internal note to staff last week called the 'Drink Reduction Rule' of only three drinks per person. If a guest wants a fourth drink, these rules need to be followed strictly without any excuses: Order a food item after the third drink The time between the first drink ordered (rang in) and the fourth drink (rang in) in the till should be a minimum of two hours apart A schooner is considered two drinks A pitcher should never be served to one person If you serve a pitcher to two guests, consider it as two drinks per person The change is meant to promote responsible drinking. 'We could eliminate 95 per cent of the problem by implementing this one simple policy,' said Subramaniam. According to Windsor police, in 2024 there were 257 incidents related to impaired driving. As a result, 389 impaired driving related charges were laid. Of those, one charge of impaired causing death was laid. Impaired Driving stats Windsor Since the start of 2025, Windsor police have recorded 69 incidents related to impaired driving. As a result, 108 impaired driving related charges were laid. No charges of impaired causing death have been laid. Impaired Driving stats Windsor The new policy means fewer tips for servers. 'To me, that's totally irrelevant,' said Arianna Belanger, longtime server at Chuck's Roadhouse and Grill. 'I think we're going to save a lot of lives this way. We just want people to get home safe to their families.' This article is part of a three-part series. Part two, Smart Serve struggles, will air on Thursday. CTV news spoke with the executive director of Smart Serve Ontario to discuss current rules in effect and whether the mandatory program goes far enough. Part three will air on Friday.
