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Geoff Miller (geoffm@netcom.com) wrote:


> Earlier I wrote (reasonably enough, I thought):

> >: Part of the implied contract between restaurant and customer
> >: is that while he's on the premises, the customer will obtain
> >: all food and drink from the proprietor exclusively. 


> James Salsman <jps@mti.sgi.com> replies:

> > I think that is insensitive to people with 
> > pervasive food allergies (e.g., wheat) who 
> > want to enjoy the company of their friends 
> > in the atmosphere of a resturant.

> <snort>

> People's allergies aren't the restaurant's problem.  
> They're free to chose another place to enjoy the
> company of their friends (including somebody's home)
> if a restaurant's policies aren't to their liking, just
> like anybody else is.  Restaurants have no obligation
> to accomodate them.  And if somebody is allergic to wheat
> or whatever, then he certainly doesn't have to order any
> dish containing that substance.  Problem solved.  

That's insensitive too.  If you are allergic to wheat, you are probably
restricted to a gluten-free diet, which includes most grains and other
substances you find in almost all processed foods, including restaurant
food.  Eating at resturants is nearly impossible for people afflicted by
the disease. <snort>.  Trader-Joes accomodates such people with a 
list of Gluten-Free products, but the restuarants are ignorant to it.

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