Question

To raise revenues, the City of St. Cloud required restaurants to purchase a special permit if they wanted to serve food in an open-air patio. While at Hola Taco, a restaurant in St. Cloud, a customer notices that Hola Taco’s permit expired. Consequently, the customer refused to pay for her food. Because Hola’s Taco’s permit expired, the customer is not legally required to pay for her food.

a) true
b) false

Answer 1

The expiration of a restaurant's open-air patio permit does not absolve the customer from the legal obligation to pay for the food consumed. Payment is for food and service received, not the status of the restaurant's permit.

Step-by-step explanation:

The issue presented is whether the expiration of a restaurant's special permit to serve food in an open-air patio impacts the legal obligation of a customer to pay for their food. The answer is b) false. Customers are legally obliged to pay for the food and services they have received, irrespective of the restaurant's permit status.

The permit is an agreement between the restaurant and the city, and its expiration does not constitute a defense for non-payment for a customer. The customer benefits from the food and service, not the permit. And, unless the law specifically provides for such an exception, which is unlikely, the customer's legal obligation to pay remains intact.

Answer 2

Answer: B. False

Explanation: Even when Hola's Taco's permit has expired a customer does not have the right to refused payment for consuming its goods and services. It is only the authority, a constituted body that regulate and grant permit can sanction Hola's Taco.

So therefore, the customer is legally required to pay for his food, even though Hola's Taco have expired permit.