Liquor Training
Give your staff an edge, consider liquor training
Alcohol Training is becoming more and more prevalent across the hospitality industry. Both Illinois and Indiana have mandated liquor training for bartenders and servers in their respective states. Even in states without mandatory server training requirements, more and more municipalities and counties are adopting mandatory training policies. Insurance companies may grant disounts for having employees trained, and some require it as a condition of writing coverage.
Aside from who is making licensees do it, training your employees, especially your servers, is just good common sense. These are your front-line people, the ones interacting with your customers. In a day and age where a business can be held liable for the actions of a patron they served alcohol up to 24 hours ago, as is the case in Illinois, training a young bartender or waitress could be the difference between claims and lawsuits against your livlihood for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Update - April 2024
As of April 2024 Bret Dixon Insurance's state-approved BASSET Training Program, Responsible Alcohol Management Practices (RAMP), has been discontinued and we are no longer offering training classes. If you were previously trained under our program your certificate is still valid until the 3 year expiration date. We can still help you pull a copy of your state training certificate, but we are unable to offer any new training classes as of 4/1/2024.
If you are in need of a renewal course, we recommend you check with the Illinois Liquor Control Commission's list of approved BASSET trainers that can be found here.
Check this map for the deadline by which employees in your county must be BASSET trained. As of July 1st, 2018, mandatory BASSET training is now in effect for ALL counties in Illinois.
After successful completion of a course we will issue you our certificate of completion. We will also submit your information, provided you completed all necessary info in a legible manner, to the State Liquor Control Commission for issuance of your Illinois BASSET card. It may take a few weeks for them to issue you your card.
When they do, it will look like this.
If you have lost your state BASSET card, you may follow this link for info on requesting a new one from the ILCC. You may also contact them at 217-782-2136 (Sprinfield office) or 312-814-2206 (Chicago office) or email them at ILCC@illinois.gov.
