California AB 1276 requires Thousand Oaks restaurants to provide single-use foodware accessories like utensils, straws, and condiment packets only on customer request, not by default.
California Assembly Bill 1276, effective June 2022, prohibits food facilities statewide from providing single-use foodware accessories unless the customer affirmatively requests them. Covered items include utensils, chopsticks, cocktail picks, splash sticks, stirrers, condiment cups, and condiment packets. Drive-through and third-party delivery orders must ask customers whether they want accessories rather than auto-include them. Thousand Oaks restaurants comply through point-of-sale prompts, separate accessory stations, and updated delivery interfaces. AB 1276 also bans expanded polystyrene foodware accessories. SB 1046 (2018) and AB 1884 already restricted plastic straws to on-request only at full-service restaurants.
Two written warnings precede fines of twenty-five dollars per day per violation, capped at three hundred dollars annually. Local enforcement runs through Ventura County Environmental Health.
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