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The lemonade stand with a $300 license is inspected several times a year and awarded a health score, and the employees are required to undergo food safety train
by learc83 8y ago
The lemonade stand with a $300 license is inspected several times a year and awarded a health score, and the employees are required to undergo food safety training. They are also running a real business that required a real investment, so they should be more risk averse.
I don't know if the risks from kids running lemonade stands is high enough to justify regulation, but presumably all the above makes a business with a $300 license less likely to poison customers.
- abfan1127 8y agoyou're buying powdered lemonade from kids. If you can't identify the risks involved in such a process, maybe you shouldn't be doing other things in everyday life like driving...
- sincerely 8y agoI mean, there's a significant amount of the population that isn't capable of passing a driving test but that we as a society still let buy food on their own.
- loeg 8y agoWe usually let them drive, too :-(.
- abfan1127 8y agoand they seem to get through life without debilitating food poisoning, so maybe worrying about food poisoning via a child's powdered lemonade stand is a bit excessive.
- sincerely 8y agoWell, they get through life without debilitating food poisoning in large part because of existing government regulation regarding selling food....
- ben509 8y ago> ... so they should be more risk averse. It lessens risk, but doesn't eliminate it, so the original question still stands: what does happen when the $300 license holder poisons someone?
- DanBC 8y agoThe victim sues and gets a pay out for their losses from the food vendor's public liability insurance that is a requirement of the licence.
- loeg 8y agoRequiring liability insurance is entirely orthogonal to the cost of the business license. A locality could hand out business licenses for free and require liability insurance.
- learc83 8y agoYou seem to be forgetting the whole point of this thread--a proposal for $10 licenses that kids can afford. There's no point in making a license affordable for kids if they still need to have completely unaffordable liability insurance. It's pretty clear that when the OP suggested a $10 license they were also suggesting removing other regulatory costs. The proposal is useless otherwise.