How
would you like to go the bar and pour your own drinks? Thanks to a new law, you
can finally do it in Connecticut.
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12’s John Craven was at Tapville Social in Brookfield to see how the system
works.
Bars are required to have someone on site checking IDs
before selling RFID chip cards to self-servers. The cards are limited
to 32 ounces for beer or 10 ounces for wine. Also, self-pour sales are not
allowed for hard liquor.
State
lawmakers approved the change last month after years of trying. But so far,
most bars say they're not interested. They say people prefer the human touch of
a bartender.
"We
are coming out of a pandemic. I know it's very hard to find workers, but I
think it's the wrong message to send to eliminate bartending jobs or service
jobs,” says state Rep. Devin Carney.
Mike
Gallop, the owner of Tapville Social, says “bartenders don’t have to worry”
about losing their jobs in the state.
“The
machine's not going to take over,” he said.
Tapville
Social bought the self-pour taps before the new law passed.