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1 apple? No. 100 apples? Maybe. 1000 apples? Yes. You don't even need these "boxes" because you can apply common sense: you are selling a lot of apples. This
by rprasad 14y ago
1 apple? No.
100 apples? Maybe.
1000 apples? Yes.
You don't even need these "boxes" because you can apply common sense: you are selling a lot of apples. This makes you a "vendor." Apples are food, hence you are a "food vendor." At that point, you have a substantial number of customers.
If the apples you sell are contaminated (by your or a supplier), we need to be able to track down your customers for public health reasons. Hence, the license.
This does not require massive government intervention. That exists because of all of the cruft built up over decades to prevent bad apples (pun intended) from abusing loopholes in the rules.
Food vendor licensing has a common basis with hotel licensing. SOPA is a red herring, as there is no public safety basis that ties it to food or hospitality.
- Symmetry 14y agoThe problem with this is that different people are going to have different common sense ideas of where the cutoff is, so the numbers have to get written down. Then you to worry about how many things constitute an "item", like if I'm selling boxes of packs of raisins do you count the boxes, the packs, or the raisins? And is the count different for apples and hams? Pretty soon you're arguing in court about whether a Fig Newton is a cookie or not. But then again, we're already arguing in court about whether or not a Fig Newton is a cookie for purposes of sales tax, so this isn't an infeasible solution, just one that imposes costs we should be aware of.