Originally Posted by
makeUturn
Another partial reason for the change is the staggering amount of state and local laws that make it extremely difficult and expensive to prepare food on site. In some locations, is almost impossible and the food has to be prepared in a large commercial type kitchen someplace else and shipped to the restaurant.
This intrigues me. What possible reason would someone pass a law making it difficult or expensive to prepare food on-site? I can think of lots of reasons to pass laws banning food not prepared on-site (higher quality food, more local work etc. etc.), but why would you do it the other way round?