New York requires Buffalo restaurants and third-party delivery platforms to provide single-use plastic utensils, straws, condiment packets, and napkins only when a customer specifically requests them.
NY Environmental Conservation Law section 27-2901, the Skip the Stuff law effective 2024, bars Buffalo food service establishments and third-party delivery services from automatically including single-use utensils, plastic straws, stirrers, condiment packets, or extra napkins with takeout or delivery orders. Items can only be provided when the customer affirmatively requests them through the menu, app, or in person. Online ordering platforms must default the request boxes to off. The rule covers restaurants, food trucks, ghost kitchens, and grocery prepared-food counters, with limited exemptions for hospitals and schools.
Including utensils without request can lead to written warnings, fines up to two hundred fifty dollars per violation, and potential corrective orders from DEC inspectors.
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