Q&A on outdoor dining inspection burdens and health inspector timing

Henry Ross, can we go back to the conversation about streamlining outdoor dining?

Does that also apply to when inspectors go out?

And let me explain what I mean.

I was just with a restaurant that went through the very cumbersome process of getting

roadway dining area and they say they see inspectors all the time literally coming out with rulers and stopping their work and getting into it does the bill streamline any of that sort of regulation because they say that's getting

really over the top for them

Yeah, the bills do not address that issue, but we're certainly happy to look at it.

That was not something that came up, and we've had so many hearings, so many meetings.

That is not particularly a complaint that we heard, but we're certainly happy to look into it.

And obviously anything that is becoming burdensome and cumbersome, we don't want to do.

We also, quite frankly, I think, need to look at the fact that inspectors are constantly coming from the health department during service.

So when you are having a busy lunch service, that is oftentimes when the health inspector will come, and that really puts an enormous burden on the restaurant.

So for things, you know, whether they're measuring things, doing things, that's taking people away from their busiest time of service.

Thank you.

Any on-topic questions?

I think.