{"id":19978,"date":"2022-05-11T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=19978"},"modified":"2022-05-11T05:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:31:05","slug":"brick-introduces-training-requirement-for-businesses-that-sell-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/05\/brick-introduces-training-requirement-for-businesses-that-sell-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Introduces Training Requirement for Businesses That Sell Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A beer glass on top of a bar. (Photo: Ruocaled\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick officials on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that would require training for employees of businesses that sell alcoholic beverages in the township.<\/p>\n

The ordinance, which was approved unanimously on first reading, requires all \u201cfront of the house\u201d employees, such as managers, servers, hosts, bartenders and bussers, to earn and hold a certification in alcohol management. The requirement will also apply to those who work in businesses with a distribution license \u2013 generally, liquor stores \u2013 as well as so-called \u201cclub licenses\u201d that are issued to social organizations such as the Elks or a yacht club.<\/p>\n

The township noted two certifications that will be accepted: TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures) and TAMS (Techniques of Alcohol Management), both of which are offered locally by the township and nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe training is available free for establishments, and is beneficial because it reduces insurance costs as well,\u201d said Councilwoman Andrea Zapcic, who introduced the measure to the council. \u201cThere are three township employees certified to do the training and several organizations in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zapcic said she previously has worked with an organization known as the DART Coalition<\/a> to facilitate the training, which teaches restaurant and store employees to spot phony IDs, identify cases of excessive drinking and deal with difficult customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about a three to four hour training,\u201d said Zapcic. \u201cIt\u2019s done live at the restaurant\u2019s discretion \u2013 they can schedule one as a group. When I worked with the DART Coalition, we used to regularly go to River Rock and do their training right on site.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ordinance requiring the training to take place within 90 days of an employee being hired at a licensed establishment. Each business owner will be required to keep on file a copy of each employee\u2019s certification number and its expiration date.<\/p>\n

The ordinance will be subject to a public hearing and second vote before it is formally adopted. That is scheduled to take place at the May 24, 2022 meeting of the township council.<\/p>\n

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Brick officials on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that would require training for employees of businesses that sell alcoholic beverages in the township. The ordinance, which was approved unanimously on first reading, requires all \u201cfront of the house\u201d employees, such as managers, servers, hosts, bartenders and bussers, to earn and hold a certification in alcohol management. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4660,24,4484,1194,4072,4662,4661],"class_list":["post-19978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-alcohol-training","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-liquor-license","tag-restaurants","tag-tams","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7961760700_944ef456e2_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}