Comrade Cuomo

[ironglows]

Comrade Cuomo enacts new jackassery..  He passes edict saying if a bar serves a drink, they must furnish food with it !
  So naturally, being dictated to, many bar owners are complying in such a way as to ridicule the mini-fuherer's orders..   
  https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/17/restaurants-serve-up-cuomo-chips-allowing-bar-patrons-to-comply-with-governors-order/


   https://imgflip.com/i/380sqi   Some are offering a free pretzel !

 

[darkgael]

I dont know what Gov. Cuomo did differently. Laws requiring the offering of food in bars/saloons have been on the books for a long time.
NYS Alcoholic Beverage Control Law Section 64A, paragraph 8:
“ Every special on-premises licensee shall regularly keep food available for sale to its customers for consumption on the premises.”
[/size]This was on the books back in the 1960s (at least). There is an old story about bar owners who would keep a sandwich wrapped in plastic in a cooler under the bar. When an inspector came by, they would show him the sandwich. When he left, they put the sandwich back into the cooler until the next time.[/color]
[/size]I wonder what the changes are nowadays.[/color]
[/size]Used to be that pretzels and chips did not qualify as food.[/color]
[/size][/color]

[Argent 88]

I guess that's why they offer free crackers or peanuts in a lot of bars. There is one over in Ruidoso where the
patrons throw the peanut shells on the floor. A girl goes around sweeping them up.

[ironglows]

Since I am a tea-totaler, I am not familiar with rules or customs in bars.  ..But I don't think eating food with a drink was mandatory.
  I always did understand that food must be available at any place where alcohol is served.


  Perhaps the difference is whether one is required to purchase and eat some food.

[ironglows]

I guess that's why they offer free crackers or peanuts in a lot of bars. There is one over in Ruidoso where the
patrons throw the peanut shells on the floor. A girl goes around sweeping them up.

  My son & daughter-in-law once took me to a steak house where people were eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor.  I just couldn't do it..it just seemed a sloppy and rude thing to do.


  Why not just have a waste basket at the table?  Didn't make sense to me..

[darkgael]

“ Perhaps the difference is whether one is [/size]required[/i][/size] to purchase and eat some food.”[/size]


That must be it.
Pete