[Tagging] Adding food=yes / food=no on amenity=pub - is it useful for all pubs?

[Robert Skedgell]

On 28/07/2021 21:24, Andy Townsend wrote:
> * Personally I'd say anything from a pork pie upwards counts as "food" 
> but a bag of crisps on its own does not.  In England and Wales a 
> "substantial meal" is actually defined by common law** (see 
> https://www.hospitalitylaw.co.uk/pub-or-restaurant-is-your-meal-substantial-enough/ 
> ) and the definition became famous in England before Christmas because 
> it was reused as part of the "when you are allowed to go to a pub in 
> times of Covid" rules.
> 
> ** I am not a lawyer but I have provided computer advice to them...
> 

The biggest problem with the definition of a "substantial meal" is that 
no such thing existed in the Tier 2 rules for England. The "debate" 
about it was a pointless distraction (by Michael "had enough of experts" 
Gove, who was also responsible for the mythical 1 hour time limit on 
exercise). The regs required a "table meal" and provided a definition, 
which might be useful for food=yes.

 From Schedule 2 to The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) 
(All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020 No. 1374):

"Requirement to close businesses selling alcohol for consumption on the 
premises
14.— [...] (2) This sub-paragraph applies if alcohol is only served for 
consumption on the premises as part of a table meal, and the meal is 
such as might be expected to be served as breakfast, the main midday or 
main evening meal, or as a main course at such a meal.
[...]
(4) For the purposes of this paragraph, a “table meal” is a meal eaten 
by a person seated at a table, or at a counter or other structure which 
serves the purposes of a table and is not used for the service of 
refreshments for consumption by persons not seated at a table or 
structure serving the purposes of a table."

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374/schedule/2/made

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Robert Skedgell