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Tell me if this is how the rules go: No outside food in single level cafes; outside food allowed in upper level of bi-level cafes.
I've seen families / groups of friends do just that when casual restaurants are next door. I'm talking about when a Chipotle is next to a Panera Bread or something like that. So the general idea is not a foreign concept in the real world.Would you be permitted to bring your own food into a restaurant and eat it at a table? I doubt it.
And this needs to become the rule. Straight from the mouth of an LSA, just this week I had two ladies walk away empty handed for fears of dropping their purchase trying to get back to their seat, and that there was no where to sit in the Cafe.During the busy time in the café, when many people are purchasing a sandwich or meal, then I would expect the booths to be available for the café customers since they are paying for the café food. If you bring your own food aboard, the café isn't busy, and there are no applicable FDA regs, then it should be open seating for everyone.
And yet, they are most likely violating local health codes. The reason for no-outside-food-or-beverage is not only that it can cannibalize sales for the 'hosting' restaurant, it is so that any food borne illness can be quickly sourced, identified and limited in transmission. It becomes much harder to do that when a family brings in homemade potato salad to eat at Jimmy John's and that entire family later becomes ill---except for the one person who didn't eat the potato salad (but ate something else from home). It's why most health departments are not big fans of shopping mall/transit station food courts, with a common consumption area (and I believe why I have seen more restaurant-specific dining areas in some locales).I've seen families / groups of friends do just that when casual restaurants are next door. I'm talking about when a Chipotle is next to a Panera Bread or something like that. So the general idea is not a foreign concept in the real world.Would you be permitted to bring your own food into a restaurant and eat it at a table? I doubt it.
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