Comment on Cake sheds are making bakers £1,000 a week - but the dream might be over
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Mixed feelings about this - there’s clearly a point where “I’m making a bit of food for friends” drifts into “I’m running a small shop” - but at what point in that do you say “you need to make sure your food preparation area is compliant”?
In an ideal situation, there would be a significantly smaller street trading fee for micro-businesses, or perhaps one which scaled with business size? If the council was running for the benefit of its community, the focus would be on supporting these micro-business through the process of bringing things up to standard and applying for the correct things, instead of fining them for being wrong.
Presuming this is a residential street im sure the neighbours are happy about 100s of people driving in from surrounding towns every day.
I agree there should be easier paths to compliance but clearly these rules exist for a reason and shouldn’t be ignored.
but clearly these rules exist for a reason
Yep. The Man always had to get his cut. This is capitalism wrapped in sheeple wool.
If it were about “safety”, then donating to food to the hungry wouldn’t be a fucking crime, because the systems to ensure that food was fine would be baseline already.
Instead, people blithely parrot this “safety” bullshit while millions go hungry and perfectly good, edible food is wasted in disgusting amounts every. single. day.
But, hey, at least everyone can (will/has) point at this “law”. “Ope, hands are tied, sorry.” 😶
If it were about “safety”, then donating to food to the hungry wouldn’t be a fucking crime
I don’t think that that is a crime in the UK. Definitely is in the US though…
It’s not in the UK’s exploitation class’ interests yet.
Cherry@piefed.social 4 days ago
Agree these emerging business are a great route to work for many. Practical support, that’s not (overweighted by middlemen and fake professional) could be a good win to communities.