DBWI no resturant act of 1933

[West]

The restaurant act was an effort by the federal government to maintain restaurant jobs and promote cleanleness in Americas at the time filthy resturants.

Under the law there was a federal grading system for how clean your restaurant is.

If your restaurant got an A rating your resutrant didn't have to pay federal, state or local taxes.
If it got a B it had to pay local Taxes
If it got a C it had to pay local and state taxes
If you got a D you had to pay local state and federal taxes
And if your restaurant got an F it was closed down.

Resturants were required by federal law to post their rating in public.

Many credit the act for making Americas resturants a lot cleaner and say that the restaurant act helps small business's. Others say that its abused by companies to avoid paying income and property tax and that restaurant chains and fast food chains abuse the act.

But dispite all efforts to change or remove it the Resturant act of 1933 is still unchained and remains in place to this day.

But what if the act was never voted into law how would America look today?

 

[Plateosaurus]

Our understanding of drug-resistant bacteria would be much lower without the infamous Patty Plague*, and the cleaning industry would be much more regulated.

[OOC: Its this fictional drug-resistant disease claiming around 950,000 lives during the late 1940's which originated in part because of an explosion of cleaning products,]

 

[Kalga]

Maybe there'll be far more Chinese immigrants and vibrant Chinese American communities? Let's be honest here the law was (and still is) oftentimes used by racist law enforcement and local & state governments to shut down Chinese American restaurants on trumped up charges, after extracting all they could in terms of revenue.

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

Without that law, dangerous heathen devilry like italian, chinese or mexican "cooking" could become widespread in the United States.

 

[Sam R.]

Maybe instead of defederalising, ie centralizing states beneath the government, the federal goverment uses selectively applied funding to force states to comply with central policies.

I still have no idea how the bench stacking to win the test case got through.

 

[Nephi]

Without that law, dangerous heathen devilry like italian, chinese or mexican "cooking" could become widespread in the United States.

Ooc I'm pretty sure it still would have, it's delicious.

 

[Joseph890]

[Italian food existed in the Americas before the great depression the earliest pizzeria opened I think in 1905 so they would still be Italian food]

 

[Nephi]

[Italian food existed in the Americas before the great depression the earliest pizzeria opened I think in 1905 so they would still be Italian food]

And Mexican food would still trickle north, the only way to really truly have an American only cuisine at restaurants is to have the US on a world by itself in 1900.

 

[West]

Without that law, dangerous heathen devilry like italian, chinese or mexican "cooking" could become widespread in the United States.

Most food in the united states is sadly regional.

Its hard to get good Italian outside of that area from Chicago to New York, its really hard to get decent Mexican outside of the cresent which goes from texas goes west to California and up to Washington. Chinese though if your outside California and New York is almost impossible to find.

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

Restaurants wouldn't have to go through the ruse of being a "private dining club" (private meaning you fill out a membership application, wait in the lobby until it is approved, then viola! your table is ready). They probably have to pay a lot less in bribes to stay open.

This might also mean desegregation a few years earlier (say the 70s or 80s), if they are ostensibly open to the public.

Delicatessens suffer, if people are dining out more instead of ordering delivery or carryouts.

 

[David T]

OOC: The "Code of fair competition for the restaurant industry as approved on February 16, 1934" under the National Industrial Recovery Act does have a section dealing with cleanliness... https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00009888/00001/20j

 

[Dolan]

While Colonel Sanders' KFC might still being the biggest business in International restaurant franchise, I doubt KFC would be famous for their White-dominated Decorations, with clean, crisp, nugget-sized fried chicken chunks as their specialty without being advertised as the Cleanest Fast Food Restaurant.

Maybe they'll opt with Bigger chunks of chicken.

 

[West]

Restaurants wouldn't have to go through the ruse of being a "private dining club" (private meaning you fill out a membership application, wait in the lobby until it is approved, then viola! your table is ready). They probably have to pay a lot less in bribes to stay open.

This might also mean desegregation a few years earlier (say the 70s or 80s), if they are ostensibly open to the public.

Delicatessens suffer, if people are dining out more instead of ordering delivery or carryouts.

the dinning club thing is only the case in new York state, and Chicago the rest of the countries health inspectors don't have the same reputation for corruption that happens there.

New Orleans by contrast ironically enough is corrupt every where except the health inspectors, apparently mayors look after their favorite resturants and can corrupt HI's quickly.

 

[Ebitdadada]

Most food in the united states is sadly regional.

Its hard to get good Italian outside of that area from Chicago to New York, its really hard to get decent Mexican outside of the cresent which goes from texas goes west to California and up to Washington. Chinese though if your outside California and New York is almost impossible to find.

On what do you base this on? Just a random guy living in Chicago but simply as an example, Chicago is about 20% Mexican by population. To say you can't get good Mexican here is absolutely laughable (Also, I lived in Seattle before Chicago. Saying Washington or Oregon has great Mexican food is a bit wacky... Population is pretty much white and Asian so not sure who's making the great Mexican ha).

I'd also argue you can get great Chinese food in both Chicago & Seattle (though this may be a bit more recent development in Chicago. Chinatown has kind of transformed itself in the past 3 years with an influx of wealthy Chinese people). Any who, impossible outside California and NY might be a bit of hyperbole (though maybe a bit of truth there). I'd assume there are some other cities that break this impossibly as well. FWIW (not sure if we're talking US only) Toronto also has great Chinese food.