$250 Foie Fine Less Than Cost Per Pound
"Food dispensing establishment" means any fixed location where food or drink is routinely prepared and served or provided for the public for consumption on or off the premises with or without charge. Such establishments include, but are not limited to, restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias, short order cafes, luncheonettes, grills, tearooms, sandwich shops, soda fountains, taverns, bars, cocktail lounges, nightclubs, industrial feeding establishments, take-out establishments, private institutions or organizations routinely serving food, catering kitchens, commissaries or any other eating or drinking establishment or operation.
"Food purveyor establishment" means any place where any cooked or uncooked article of food, drink, confection or condiment used for or intended to be used for human consumption off the premises, is stored, sold, prepared, cooked or offered for sale at retail, such as candy manufacturers, confectioneries, fish markets, fruit and vegetable markets, grocery stores, meat markets, nut stores, dressed poultry markets or retail bakeries, bakery outlets or any similar place. [*]
Right. Fox & Obel (the market part) is a food purveyor, not a food dispenser. It would be perfectly legal for F&O market to sell foie gras, but you couldn't get it on your burger at their cafe. This is not the first time that the legality of selling foie gras retail has been mentioned in the press, but now you can be absolutely certain. Although we doubt that being self-righteous at F&O's prepared foods counter is going to get you very far. Good news! You can still buy their endangered fish eggs to your hearts' content.
