JoAnn C wrote:wdwizbest wrote:I guess it's possible to overindulge during a meal. It seems unlikely though especially at about $9.00 (or more) a pop. ........I pretty much said the same thing when they announced beer & wine at Be Our Guest.
If a person does get drunk during dinner at MK, they've more than likely had a head start before they arrived.
Or they smuggled it in
As in the other locations, any place has the right to refuse service to someone they believe to be intoxicated. They just don't do that as often at Epcot (imo).
Two years ago, I and my friend had a wine and our husbands had beer at BOG and the only thunder and lightning was because we were in the rose room...
I think the reason it's difficult at Epcot (or Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom...Epcot just gets more of a draw with drinking around the world) is because the alcohol is available at kiosks and not just sit down restaurants. At kiosks it is probably a lot more difficult to determine in a 20 sec interaction if someone has had to much. And it's really easy for someone else to walk up and order a drink for a friend if they have been cut off by a CM. At a sit down restaurant it's a lot easier to enforce that "over served" standard because the person is sitting right there. You have longer interactions with them, more time to observe their behavior, and you can see how many drinks they've had vs. the grazing at multiple outdoor kiosks.
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