Questions tagged [restaurants]
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Do I have legal obligation to change the payment method at a restaurant, if they refuse to (but have the ability to) accept my credit card?
I ate in a restaurant one day and paid with my Discover credit card. The restaurant reluctantly accepted it but told me that this card incurs a higher fee to them. The next day after my meal, they refused to accept this same credit card. I happened…
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In Québec, are restaurants legally required to provide free potable water upon request?
In the province of Québec, are restaurants legally required to provide free potable water upon request?
If so, what is the name/article of this law?
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What is the legal basis for making servers pay for customers who walk out?
In the US, different states have different laws regarding customers who leave without paying the bill, aka "Dine and Dash."
Some states allow for a restaurant to dock a server's pay, when a customer leaves without paying. However, I dont understand…
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Living Above a Restaurant
If I wanted to save money by living in the floor above a restaurant I opened, would this be legal? A friend brought up the problem of districts (commercial, residential, etc)... would this prevent me from doing this?
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Can a restaurant in Germany refuse service without a tip?
So I live in Germany, and there is a restaurant about 10 minutes away from my house. I often order from there but now much less. Delivery times can vary from 1 hour to several hours… I just noticed on their website that they will cancel all orders…
Jimmy
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How much street space can restaurants occupy?
In Paris, France, what define how much street space can a restaurant occupy?
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Is it legal for a bartender to serve "virgin" drinks to an intoxicated patron without telling them?
An occasional trope in media, or in real life, is to have someone who is obviously intoxicated handed another drink and, when someone calls the server on it, they say that they gave them water instead of vodka, or a Jack and Coke without the Jack,…
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What terms surround a restaurant order?
What law in involved in restaurant orders? If I go into a restaurant and order hundreds of dollars of food, then leave before it arrives, I would imagine there is some recourse that the proprietor could take. However, if I order a single item and it…
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Do I have to pay for a drink if a vendor cannot accept payment?
Recently I was served a drink at the pub where I intended to pay by debit card and had no alternative payment method available (e.g. cash).
The card reader was faulty and I consumed my drink whilst the barman was attempting to fix the reader.…
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Can restaurants charge differently based on customer's language?
I greeted some Chinese friends who just arrived at an airport. They were hungry after a long flight so we ate lunch inside the airport. We sat down and opened the menu in Chinese. We ordered some food and talked about our lives. While one was…
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What laws require establishments to serve free tap water in the UK and what are the parameters of these requirements?
Can an ice cream / "fast food" shop, that purports not to be a restaurant, decline to serve fresh drinking water free of charge when asked for by a customer?
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Must restaurants serve water for free to their customers in France?
https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/Publications/Vie-pratique/Fiches-pratiques/Carafe-d-eau-verre-d-eau (mirror 1, mirror 2) states:
La carafe d'eau ordinaire en accompagnement du repas est inclue dans le prix du repas.
The flask of ordinary…
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Are restaurants required to have a bathroom available?
In a restaurant:
If they have a bathroom, must they let paying or unpaying customers use it?
Can they deny use to people who have not bought anything?
There's a McDonald's that does not allow use of its bathroom after 11pm. Is this legal?
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NYS Tied House Law, explained
Upstate NY (USA) here. Reading the NYS State Liquor Authority's Brewery Quick Reference Guide and trying to understand the Tied House Law passage on page 1:
"Tied House...Additionally, the 'tied house law' prohibits any person who holds a direct or…
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Is There a Default Position on Beverage Refills?
This question was inspired by a 2014 case in South Carolina, where a man named Christopher Lewis was given a $525 ticket (later reduced to a warning) for refilling a drink at a VA Medical Center.
In Mr. Lewis' case, supposedly there were signs…
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