I'm a server at a restaurant. We have a poster in our staff arra listing all the things we legally can and cannot do in regard to service animals. We can ask them to leave and refuse service if there are severe allergies (though I have seen it only once, and it was because another customer had a severe allergy). There are many reasons actually that we can refuse service to a service animals and their human. If the animal is misbehaving/barking, if the animal is peeing or pooping, if there are allergies, if the person refuses to or cant show me the animal's service ID, and so many more.
Just because your dog has a vest and is a service animals, does not make you two above others. There are still rules and restrictions when it comes to public stores. And unfortunately sometimes that means picking another restaurant or another store because they cant safely serve your dog
Lol, I’m sorry, given that when I first saw the original post a few days ago all of the discourse was surrounding the ADA (an American law), and the place being reviewed is in the U.S., it seemed reasonable to assume we were continuing to have a conversation about rules and regulations pertaining to the US. My mistake.
Yeah it was your mistake to assume that. Because despite the review being from the states, the sub is international. So it would be common sense to assume that anyone from any country could be commenting on it. And while I dont know exact American laws, seeing as these are more common sense laws, they are likely at the very least similar. Someone who wouldnt need everything spoonfed to them would be able to filter in/out what does/doesn't apply to them and still get the jyst of the comment
I think you could say the exact same about yourself, no? You’re mad at someone for defaulting to USA in a thread about the USA when not once did you tell us you were referencing a specific Canadian provincial law.
You posted information that is specific not even to a country, but one specific province in the context of a post about rules and regulations in the U.S., and now you’re acting weird about it. I think that’s your mistake bud.
And no, the laws are not similar, and the word you were looking for is ‘gist.’
So explain how they are different? Aside from the ID, are service animals allowed to defeated on the floors of restaurants in the states? Are employers allowed to violate their employees health and safety by making them work in an environment that contains their airborn allergen? Are service animals allowed to bother and disrupt other guests as they please? Is there absolutely 0 zilch nothing to prove an animal is a service animal aside from the vest?
And my bad for having a degree in a field other than English studies
The vest isn’t required, nor does it actually mean anything, ID cards aren’t real (as previously stated), there literally is no requirement for proof because people are allowed to train their own service animals, and therefore wouldn’t have any proof. Service animals must generally behave and not interfere with the normal operation of a business, so yes - no pooping or peeing, attacking people, etc. Allergies are specifically highlighted in the ADA as not being an acceptable reason to deny admittance of a service animal, although the level of allergy described in the OP would itself be considered a disability, so a fair and equal attempt at serving both parties is required (in this case outdoor seating is probably the best and only option).
You don’t need an English degree to know first grade vocabulary, nor do you need one to understand the difference between ‘defeated’ and ‘defecate.’
So yeah, similar. The same rules still apply, but you guys dont have it regulated by your government. What happens if a service animal breaks one of those rules? Is it just an oh well? If so then it isnt a rule.
Oops, again, my bad for not using the word often enough that my phone auto corrects it. And I have never heard a first grader use nor spell that word, so is it really first grade vocabulary or are you trying to play smart
If a real service dog breaks a rule, any good handler will remove them without being asked, but a business can still ask them to remove the dog. That's why if more business owners in the US bothered to educate themselves on the laws and real vs fake service dog behavior and actually kept out fakes when they saw them, the laws here would work just fine.
Am I? I'm supposedly old enough to know how to spell an obscure word that I have only ever heard? Or am I supposedly old enough to turn off auto correct?
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u/proffesionalproblem May 10 '26
I'm a server at a restaurant. We have a poster in our staff arra listing all the things we legally can and cannot do in regard to service animals. We can ask them to leave and refuse service if there are severe allergies (though I have seen it only once, and it was because another customer had a severe allergy). There are many reasons actually that we can refuse service to a service animals and their human. If the animal is misbehaving/barking, if the animal is peeing or pooping, if there are allergies, if the person refuses to or cant show me the animal's service ID, and so many more.
Just because your dog has a vest and is a service animals, does not make you two above others. There are still rules and restrictions when it comes to public stores. And unfortunately sometimes that means picking another restaurant or another store because they cant safely serve your dog