Dealing With Inebriated Guests
Inebriated guests can be a real problem, can’t they? When people are inebriated they don’t act rationally and trying to get them to calm down can often exacerbate the situation. This article will share with you some ways that you can deal with inebriated guests at your corporate event, or any event for that matter.
If there is alcohol at your event, there’s always going to be someone who will have just that one drink too many.
For some people that simply means that they become introverted and keep themselves to themselves, which really doesn’t disturb the event unless they fall asleep or fall over.
Other people, however, can become quite belligerent, obstinate and disruptive. It’s these types of people who can often stop the vast majority of guests from enjoying the event.
Sadly, it’s these moments of disruption that will often be remembered and talked about after the event instead of the reason for the event.
So how do you deal with inebriated guests?
One of the easiest ways to deal with inebriated guests is to designate a look out, but this shouldn’t be you as your most likely planning and running in the event.
If at any point you will look out notices and overly inebriated guest, they can help them to get some fresh air, go to the bathroom or get a soft drink. This all needs to be done in a delicate and not obvious way.
Make sure that you inform the look out not to intervene too early. People are at the event to have a good time, and being a little more gregarious after a drink is to be expected. We’ve all been there so don’t be a party pooper until things get disruptive.
Of course prevention is better than cure all, so if you can stop people from becoming extremely inebriated in the first place it can deal with a lot of potential problems.
Ways to do this include closing the bar during the meal service, having a non-alcoholic cocktail maker is a form of entertainment, issuing drinks tickets, using smaller glasses and closing the bar earlier than the event end time.