> Americans with Disability Act. One of the worst laws ever written. <
You betcha. A gal I know opened up a restaurant near me. And I was happy to see it, as all we have close by are fast-food places. Well, her restaurant had no tables! You had to eat standing up.
I found that odd. So I asked her about it. It turns out that because of the ADA, she’s not allowed to put in tables unless she had an expensive ADA-compliant rest room. Which she didn’t have.
Is that weird, or what? Anyhow, who wants to eat standing up? She closed in about a year.
(By the way, old restaurants are evidently grandfathered in.)
Yup, A sportsmans club used to belong to was serving breakfast on Sundays and the state came up with all kinds of rules.
A the restrooms had to have crippled access and the kitchen had to have 40K in updates.
It wasn’t even open to the general public except a couple hours on Sunday.
The ADA regs are quite specific. A bathroom stall has to be a certain size—big enough to let a wheelchair in. No allowance for the cost of the upgrade, and frankly in older buildings the upgrade is virtually impossible. The entrance to a business must be flush with the outside pavement. A ramp to get around stairs has regs on its slope, flat rest areas are required at specific distances, if it is too long...the regs go on and on. And there are people who make a living finding places that are non-compliant.