CBS 2 Investigation: Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties

CBS2News NYC ^ | September 11, 2013 | Tamara Leitner

[iowamark]

Speakeasy restaurants avoid the over-regulation in New York City.

Video at the source.

[iowamark]

http://www.eatwith.com/

https://www.undergroundeats.com/

[digger48]

OMG!!!

I bet they even allow salt shakers on the table!

[hinckley buzzard]

The idea of NY City Government regulating any restaurants is akin to a gang of homosexual pedophiles regulating day care centers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well... seems to me that if they offered the meals for free to one another that would remove the shadow. God blesses reciprocity, y’know... that’s heaven’s dance.

[KTM rider]

someone should make a bumper sticker : “Capitalism is not a crime”

[JoeProBono]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Try to imagine this story as recently as 1985. We are the boiling frog.

[wastedyears]

Who cares?

[dfwgator]

They'd better be careful or else Dickless will come for them.

[Trailerpark Badass]

In some Atlanta neighborhoods they have something similar, where for a fee you gather at someone's home with hundreds of strangers (maybe even rival gang members!), enjoy cheap booze and a DJ, and have a better than even chance of getting shot.

What fun!

[moovova]

“SWAT, party of 8, SWAT, your table is ready...”

[HiTech RedNeck]

And it isn’t.

This is kind of a weird quasi-restauranteurism. I’d bet... all they need to do to get the government to stop trying to regulate this is to make it officially into privately hosted dinner parties. Whoever is hosting offers the food gratis to the guests, who can be as restricted a list as they wish (i.e. people who promise to reciprocate). Do it at some neutral site like a banquet hall if using the restaurant itself incurs difficulties. There’s always some way around this.

[GeronL]

Is this like a liberty taxi?

[CodeToad]

“they are completely unregulated”

There’s the communist rub: It ain’t “regulated”, meaning taxed. We can choose to go to homes for dinner but not if money is involved. Uncle Stupid wants his cut.

[HiTech RedNeck]

... so if they do it for free ... nothing to tax.

[logitech]

I’m guessing an unregistered Fondue set is a no go.

[MeshugeMikey]

“SWAT, party of 8, SWAT, your table is ready...”

PRICELESS!!!

[VanShuyten]

Go to any neighborhood with a large number of illegals, and you will find homes with restaurants, rental rooms, convenience stores, and everything else. No big stories about that.
NY is just upset it isn’t getting its cut from the rich guys running this.

[gigster]

I throw “Unregulated” Dinner Parties every year, at Thanksgiving.