Education is the best tool to prevent, minimize, or eliminate foodborne illnesses and food hazards.
Training helps reduce or eliminate food safety hazards before they become major issues.
Reducing food safety complaints will create a happier workplace and in turn increase productivity.
The TABC Texas Training Program is an online course designed to educate alcohol servers on responsible alcohol service. It helps meet the legal requirements set by the Texas Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (TABC) and promotes safe, compliant alcohol service practices across the state.
To begin, create an account, pay the registration fee, and register for the course. Once registered, you can start the training anytime and access it online from anywhere.
The Texas Tabc Online Course lasts approximately 1.5 hours and can be completed at your own pace. You can stop and start the course whenever it’s convenient for you.
While participation is currently voluntary, anyone working in the alcohol service industry in Texas—including bartenders, servers, and managers, should complete Alcohol Server Training to ensure safe service and potential liability protection.
To earn your Alcohol Server Certificate, you need to score 70% or higher on the final exam. You’ll be given up to two attempts to pass.
Yes! The Texas Responsible Beverage Service Training is available in both English and Spanish, making it accessible to a wider audience.
You can check your progress through your account, which displays the portion of the course you’ve completed and what’s remaining.
Upon completing the course and passing the exam, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion available to download instantly as well as by email, verifying your Alcohol Server Certificate.
The TABC Texas training promotes responsible alcohol service, helps reduce the risk of serving minors or intoxicated persons, and supports compliance with Texas Alcohol Laws.
TABC certification isn’t required by Texas state law, but many employers strongly recommend or require it. That’s because it offers legal protection under the Safe Harbor Act. This act shields employers from administrative penalties by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) if an employee accidentally serves alcohol to a minor or intoxicated person—but only if certain conditions are met.
To qualify for this protection:
The employee must not be the owner or company officer.
The employee must have a current TABC certification from an approved school.
All staff involved in selling, serving, or delivering alcohol (and their direct managers) must be certified within 30 days of hire.
The business must have written policies on responsible alcohol service, and employees must read and understand them.
Employers must not encourage or pressure employees to break the law.
Getting certified not only protects your employer, but also helps you make smarter, safer decisions when serving alcohol and interacting with customers.
The TABC Texas Training Program follows guidelines set forth by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, which outlines all rules related to Alcoholic Beverage Regulation in the state.
The TABC certificate is valid for 2 years.
The training is approved by the Texas Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (TABC).
For more info:
TABC Headquarters
5806 Mesa Dr, Austin, TX 78731
Food Handler Reviews
4.9
Great course to take when starting out in the food industry. Great videos and explantions provided and overall great information to learn when starting out in food handling!
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Took me no time at all and was easy to follow along and complete.
It was pretty boring
Veryhelpful
Easy and straight forward
Easy and straight forward
The modules were good as far as information. However, it glitched multiple times, shut down and was a bit confusing at first.
Love it❤️
It glitches a lot
The course was factual and easy to follow. This is my second time using this course.
you learn a lot of food
I learned a lot from this test and learning all the different temperatures for different items was pretty cool.
Annoying and tedious but necessary
Honestly not bad. it was tedious, but it needed to be to get all essential info across. good interactivity and great job at conveying the info.
Food Manager Reviews
4.9
excellent program to follow very educational, now next step take the test
Breaking into a short video is very helpful for my concentration.
Easy to understand
the course gave a lot of information and knowledge about the food managers course. it was nice and slow and easy to remember information. i would highly recommend this course!
good
I have much more appreciation and understanding of my role and responsibilities as a PIC, and will be ensuring that more of my team receives the same.
I have much more appreciation and understanding of my role and responsibilities as a PIC, and will be ensuring that more of my team receives the same.
I have much more appreciation and understanding of my role and responsibilities as a PIC, and will be ensuring that more of my team receives the same.
I like all the examples and questions at the end of each section. Very well explained and I’m a visual person so all the background, pictures, and info kept the training more entertaining.
I knew a lot but I learned a lot as well. Very Interesting!
Good course. Could be quicker between modules.
Very informational
The coursework was great! I really appreciated commitment to representation in the examples given during the course. The only issue I ran into is I think once or twice there were questions on one of the review exams that were about topics that were covered in the next section.
User friendly and helpful
This was very informative, but not overwhelming. The quizzes help to solidify the information.
I thought the house was way to use. I like how it had practice questions as you went along.
The modules are clear, simple and easy to understand. The questions at the end of modules are helpful.
This course was in short, easy to digest chunks that made learning easy. I appreciated the quizzes along the way. Great course to get some good knowledge!
Information is very helpful before taking the test, the studies were very good, a lot of important information needed for the test
Alcohol Training Reviews
4.8
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Food Allergen Reviews
5.0
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Harassment Training Review
4.9
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Food Manager Reviews
4.9
I was able to go through the learning modules quickly while pausing due to external factors. The information presented was clear and absent any unnecesary fill ins. All of the information is applicable to both the exam and day to day workplace use.
Excellent
Really good information
I liked the course!
Good course!
Easy to navigate
Info was well presented but the slow speed, no skipping, was rough. If I could play it at 1.5 speed, that would be better.
Very good course, easy and informative!
Thank you for everything.
It was great learning experience
Great
Reallt straightforward and engaging training modules about food safety!
Concise, easy to digest information that made the test a breeze.
Very easy training and also learned some new information
The training was full of facts and informative, common sense, a must take if handling food for the public.
The training was very informative, put how you move around a kitchen to perspective. Training was well done, informative, and had a lot of common sense applied to it.
Alcohol Training Reviews
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Food Allergen Reviews
5.0
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Harassment Training Review
4.9
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