How Can the Drinks Industry Solve Labor Shortages? Invest in Training
Beverage and hospitality professionals are using creative training to recruit new talent while creating a more diverse and inclusive industry, Betsy Andrews writes in SevenFifty Daily.
Let’s Discuss Lowering the Legal Drinking Age
It has been years since any state seriously considered raising the age at which it is legal to drink. But it’s notable that for decades that age was not near what the mark is today in all states. Most would consider it folly to make an attempt to lower the legal drinking age. And I understand that. But I’m not one of those who think it is a bad idea. And now it appears that there are others who also don’t think it is a bad idea, writes Tom Wark in his Fermentation Daily.
He notes that Last Thursday, Rep.Todd Rutherford of South Carolina introduced House Bill 4512. If passed, it would lower the legal age in South Carolina for drinking and purchasing alcohol to 18 years of age.
“His reasoning is impeccable. There is nothing about moderate alcohol consumption that is any more dangerous for an 18-year-old than going to war. Voting responsibly presumably requires a higher caliber of maturity and thoughtfulness than putting back a beer while watching the Clemson Tigers. And Being responsible for paying back thousands of dollars in loans must require a higher level of personal responsibility than enjoying a Manhattan in advance of consuming a dinner of Riblets at Applebees,” Wark writes.