If you have a restaurant and you want to sell alcohol, you need to make sure that you have a liquor license. Without that, you aren't allowed to sell liquor and run the risk of being arrested or fined if you get caught selling any kind of alcohol. When you get your license, there are things that you need to do to make sure that you can keep it. 

Check ID For Everyone

You don't want to sell any alcohol to underage people. The best way to make sure that you don't do that is to make sure that everyone is carded. Some places will card people unless they appear to be over a certain age. If your establishment is a bar, then people should be carded before they get in the bar, so servers shouldn't have to worry about that. At a restaurant, the servers should card the person who orders the drink, and you may have rules that anyone at the table will also have to be carded. 

Learn About Fake IDs

There are always going to be people who get fake IDs so that they can go out drinking. If you are in a college town, you probably see more fake IDs than other places. Make sure that your employees know how to tell a fake ID from a real one. You can post flyers and pictures near workstations so that your employees will see them regularly so that they are aware of what the fakes look like. You can also ask the police to come in and teach your employees how to recognize fakes. The police may also be willing to share what the new trends in fake IDs are. 

Go to Continuing Education Classes

When you get your license, your state may require that you go through classes. Those classes can teach you things like how to tell if someone is too drunk for you to serve any more alcohol to. In order to keep your license, the state may also require that you and your employees take classes every few years. That way you are familiar with any changes that may happen in the law. 

If you want your restaurant to sell alcohol, you can't just start selling liquor. You have to make sure that you are doing the things you need so that you can keep it. If you do lose it, then you may have to do a lot of work in order to get it back. For more information, contact local professionals like Arizona Liquor Industry Consultants.