Guide dogs in Restaurants
Posted by: mista h on 11 May 2014
Just got back from Sunday lunch at Planet Spice,our local indian restaurant in selsdon. In walk a couple with their guide dog when the manager strait away refuses them entry to the restaurant. A bit of a heated argument follows with the couple saying its against the law to refuse them entry with a guide dog and threatening to report them saying they could be fined up to £1,500 for refusing entry.
a few phone calls later they were allowed in,but the couple were clearly upset by the grief.
Any of you M/B posters know how the law stands on this one !!
Mista H
You wouldn't want to take your guide dog into a Korean restaurant though, would you?
I'll get me coat...
I don't think the law requires any dog to be admitted to a restaurant. It requires that reasonable adjustments are made to enable people with disabilities to access services. This might mean the dog is left outside and restaurant staff assist the sight impaired within the restaurant.
http://www.asic.bc.cx/releases...ritishColumbia.shtml
This is a summary of the BC legislation. My read is that it goes beyond "reasonable adjustments". Provided that your guide dog doesn't take a seat, and is on a leash or in a harness, it can legally go everywhere you can.
House-trained dogs in general, being more hygenic than babies in nappies, should be welcome in any restaurant (subject to usual obligations not to bite, or other wise disturb, other patrons, of course)
I'd certainly prefer to have well-behaved dogs in a restaurant than badly-behaved and noisy young children and babies.
+1, I wonder whether the 'reasonableness' principle applies and what would that be for children...
FWIW, I know that Guide Dog selection has pretty high standards. A family member takes part in a program to find owners for the dogs that do not make the grade and has them I their house for c6 week at a time. These dogs are amazingly well behaved and I haven't seen why they would have failed.
................... We're generally pretty tolerant of dogs in this town.
judging by your portrait avatar, that's just as well winky
I'll get me coat as well..............
