"A New Team Helps Steer Restaurateurs Through a Thicket of Red Tape
Opening a restaurant in New York City can be as frustrating as trying to brown a wet sirloin. Given worries over fire safety, food-borne illness and waste disposal, a new restaurant may have to contend with as many as 11 city agencies, often with conflicting requirements; secure 30 permits, registrations, licenses and certificates; and pass 23 inspections.
And it will still have to go to the state for a liquor license."
More at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12..._r=1&ref=restaurants
NYC regulates businesses nearly unto death. Yet, another reason conservatives disdain the left, their nanny state and attitude that government knows best. NYC has to set up another bureaucracy to advise businesses how to survive the minefield they laid.
The federal government did its best work when it was lean and flexible -- opening the west, NASA's ventures to the moon and building the Panama Canal Zone (while discovering a vaccination for yellow fever).
John Stoessel could have written the article, but its from the heart of the left wing beast, itself.
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