A BARTENDER has revealed why you might see her or other bartenders destroying a stamp on an empty bottle of liquor before throwing it away.
She claimed it has everything to do with protecting the customer.
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"If you've ever been to a bar when a bartender runs out of a bottle of liquor and you've ever seen them hitting the bottle like this before they throw it away, they are hitting the tax stamp," Charlotte, North Carolina-based bartender Michelle Kimball said in a video shared on her popular TikTok page.
"In North Carolina, we have to pay taxes on all the liquor bottles for resale at the bar and the reason we have to hit the stamp is so that you don't refill the bottle with like a cheaper version."
She added that sometimes undercover Alcohol Law Enforcement agents are sent to bars to observe the staff.
"If we don't immediately hit the sticker and then throw it away, we get fined," she noted.
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People who claimed to be bartenders in the comment section of the video said they must do this in Texas and Virginia as well.
Meanwhile, others claimed they simply break the bottles so they cannot be reused.
However, it seemed that the general consensus is that these types of laws vary from state to state, as several folks from New York said they've never had to do such a thing.
And in reply to a viewer who said these types of regulations are an overreach, Michelle gave an example of why they're necessary.
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"A bar in North Carolina that closed down was refilling all their Grey Goose and Absolut bottles with house vodka," she claimed.
Plus another commenter claimed they found out a bar they visited did this the hard way.
"This helps those who can’t do certain liquors too.
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"I can’t have any corn-based gins and have had a bar refill with a different gin ... went into anaphylaxis pretty quickly."
It certainly seems better to be safe than sorry!
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