Regulation that permits non-food-serving breweries and taprooms as restaurants is inadequate and inappropriate. This regulation leads to the unintended consequence of barring well-behaving and previously welcomed canines from these establishments. 

The North Carolina Food Code (Section 6-501.115 on page 178) prohibits animals inside the premises of a food establishment. Simply because a non-food-serving taproom has washing stations for glassware, the current statutes consider them restaurants. 

This unfitting regulation hurts non-food-serving breweries and taprooms. Breweries have filled a void in the lives of individuals across generations, social class, gender, and race serving as a place of gathering, a place of relaxation and recreation, and a place of friendship.

This petition simply asks to lift the regulation barring animals inside the premises of non-food-serving taprooms, and to be enforced at the discretion of taproom management. 

You can read about where this started in the Charlotte Agenda and Charlotte Five.