We would like
to be able to serve other meals to you.
Please Help
Us!
Aire Castle
Inn, along with many other Kentucky bed & breakfast inns,
would very much like to serve other meals to our guests.
However, Kentucky regulations prevent us from doing so.
These codes
allow us to serve breakfast, but no other meals, primarily
because our high-temperature rinse home-style dishwashers
are not approved by the State of Kentucky. They are
considered to be safe for you to use in your home, but not
for us to serve you.
It is our opinion that these
regulations are not reasonable. Dishwasher manufacturers
could not sell these units if they did not totally sanitize
our dishes. If you agree with us, help us convenience our
law-makers to change the codes, to enable us to serve lunch
and/or supper to our guests, only. We are not asking to
become a restaurant, caterer, or any other food service
establishment, or vendor.
PLEASE E-mail Bob
Leeper and send you request!
Use the form letter below (Copy & Paste)
or compose your own, but please help us.
or
Call, write, or FAX
to Kentucky State Representative
Bob Leeper
229 South
Friendship Road,
Paducah, KY
42003
(Office) 270-554-9637
(Home) 270-554-2771
(FAX)
270-554-5337
(or any other
Kentucky Representative)
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Dear Bob Leeper,
This letter is written to
support Kentucky Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers. I want to
see the outdated regulations changed for the Kentucky B&B
Industry. The combination of the three methods of
sanitation are dilution, high temperature and chemical.
The new high-temp rinse dishwashers used with new sanitizing
dish detergents surpass the safe level of sanitation needed,
because they utilize all three of theses methods.
Kentucky Health Regulations that say this method is safe for
our homes, but not safe for a bed & breakfast to use is
utterly ridiculous. Please draft, or support new
legislation to update Kentucky regulations to allow bed &
breakfast inns with no more than five guest rooms in
Kentucky to be approved to use these dishwashers and to
serve other meals than breakfast without being forced to
purchase a restaurant license in addition to the required
bed & breakfast business license. In doing so, you are
supporting a wonderful growing industry that can be a very
important asset to our Commonwealth.
Cordially Yours,
(Your Name)
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Thank You for helping us to
try to serve you better.
Notes:
Currently required commercial dishwashers cost innkeepers
$3,500 to $4,000 plus installation, potentially up to
$5,000. Most B&B's are already equipped with new
high-temp rinse home-style dishwashers, but if the innkeeper had to buy
one, they cost around $350 and are easily changed out with
older units, maximum cost $500.
Our history in
inn-keeping has shown that innkeepers will only serve an
average of one, or two dinners a month and
two, or three lunches a year. The risk factor that our
law-makers and health officials fear is virtually non-existent.
They fear a threat that does not exist.
The majority
of bed & breakfast inns are totally maintained by the
innkeepers themselves, quite often one person. By the time
the innkeeper does laundry, cleans rooms, runs errands,
greets and serves guests, there is little time, or energy
left. Our inquiries over the past twelve years have
revealed that the majority of innkeepers that are wanting to
serve dinners are Christians who love to see tired married
couples have a nice quiet evening together, rather than
going out to a noisy restaurant. These are the couples that
normally request dinners.
Blessings,
Mike & Ann
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