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natsguy

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  1. We don't have the landlord's side of the story here, but it's fairly clear to read between the lines: This place opened in 1981, before passage of the ADA. I haven't been in probably 15 years, but I recall it being a small awkward space at best. If you tried to open it today, you couldn't. It would be cost prohibitive, and probably logistically impossible, to install two complete ADA-compliant restrooms in this space. That would take up about 100 of their 600 total square feet. So the main restroom access has presumably always been to the non-accessible restroom down the stairs, and people who couldn't access that were directed to a public restroom in the attached office building. This worked fine when CF Folks was only open for lunch because the building was open, even though customers have been "self identifying" which restroom they need since the place opened (either that, or they've been telling disabled patrons that they don't have a restroom they can use, which is worse). Now CF Folks wants to open for dinner, when the office building is closed to the public. So the landlord says, quite reasonably in my opinion, we can't just have random people walking around a closed office building after hours. So they proposed to instead have the on-duty security guards accompany people that need to use the accessible restroom. This actually sounds like the landlord trying to come up with a solution to an intractable problem, not a landlord trying to come up with a pretext to give these guys the boot. I would ask the owners of CF Folks: given your space and facility constraints, what alternative did you propose for disabled restroom access for your restaurant that complies with the ADA and that would not involve patrons having to "self identify" if they need to use the disabled restroom?
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