> With a sharing-economy-restaurant, there's no way for me to assess how safe the food is to eat. And a once-yearly inspection that is announced with plenty of

> With a sharing-economy-restaurant, there's no way for me to assess how safe the food is to eat. And a once-yearly inspection that is announced with plenty of notice to the restaurants to clean up their act makes you feel safer? I've been to restaurants with a 100% health score and yet there's rat feces on the floor and dirty silverware. I for one would feel much better about eating in someone's home, especially if the home is immaculate. Obviously if you walk into a home chef's house and it's filthy, you'd be stupid to eat there, and it's the same with a restaurant. > Is this person's fridge at a safe temperature? Do they use a separate cutting board for raw meat or fish? Do they regularly wash their hands? Did they try making their own chilli oil and accidentally culture botulism? Did they use some mouldy peanuts full of aflatoxin? Call me crazy, but I feel safer eating at a chef's house than out of a perfectly legal streetside food truck. I'm an amateur cook on the level of many contestants on the show "Master Chef", and I follow strict personal guidelines for clean and safe cooking even though it's just for me and my family. If anything, I am more strict on myself when cooking for strangers, not less. An actual chef (read: trained and licensed, unlike me) should have even higher standards, so I don't see the issue from a health and safety point of view. No, just like the taxi lobbies and Lyft/Uber/Sidecar, this is a consumer-friendly disruption of the old guard, and they are choosing to litigate instead of competing on their merits.