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The Responsible Hospitality Institute
(RHI) was founded in 1983 as a Massachusetts non-profit
corporation with a mission to promote legal and social
awareness programs for the hospitality industry.
RHI’s premier project was the First
Northeast Conference on Alcohol Server Liability in 1984, a
groundbreaking event that both defined the potential role of
responsible beverage service in the prevention of drunk
driving and alcohol abuse and demonstrated the benefit of
facilitating discussion among an inclusive network of
stakeholders.
For the next decade, RHI staff
participated on national panels developing policy
recommendations, consulted on federally-funded research
projects evaluating the effectiveness of responsible
beverage service training and other server-oriented
strategies, and spearheaded the formation of Responsible
Hospitality Councils in cities across the country.
In 1989, RHI relocated from
Massachusetts to California and built programs based on
research demonstrating that the combination of server
training, management policies and an organized community
coalition resulted in the most effective change in high risk
practices among hospitality establishments.
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