There is no state regulation that prohibits restaurants from allowing customers to bring in food, and restaurants that do not allow customers to bring in food are a form of overbearing behavior.
Some restaurants require customers to bring their own alcohol and food is a hegemonic provisions, consumers in the catering business consumption, have the right to independently decide whether to buy catering company alcohol, operators use the statement, store notices and other forms of prohibition of consumers to bring their own alcohol, can only buy the store several times higher than the market price of alcohol, violating the consumer's right to independent choice and the right to a fair trade, obviously does not comply with the "Law on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests". The law is clearly not in line with the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests Act.
In addition, consumers enjoy the right to choose goods or services on their own; they have the right to refuse the operator's forced transaction behavior. This means that consumers have the right to independently choose the amount of consumption, the amount of consumption. Catering enterprises set "minimum consumption" objectively forced consumers to accept unwanted goods (dishes), forced consumers to accept unreasonable prices, violating the consumer's right to independent choice and the right to fair trade.
Expanded Information
The Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests Act states:
Article 9: Consumers have the right to choose their own goods or services.
Consumers have the right to independently choose the operators who provide goods or services, independently choose the varieties of goods or services, and independently decide whether to buy or not to buy any kind of goods, accept or not to accept any kind of service.
Consumers have the right to compare, identify and select goods or services when they choose them.
Article 22? Operators providing goods or services shall issue invoices and other proofs of purchase or service documents to consumers in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state or commercial practice; if consumers ask for invoices and other proofs of purchase or service documents, the operators must issue them.
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