Not allowed to bring your own food? Legal how?

Just a simple question pretty much focused on the American Population.

How exactly is not being allowed to bring your own food to Theme Parks and theatres legal?

Here is why i am asking this question. I live in Canada and a while ago here we had a theme park called Canada's Wonderland full of rollercoasters and a water park, that kind of theme park, much bigger then any six flags park. We were always allowed to bring our own food to the theme park, they even provided microwaves in the park to warm your food, i am not kidding, it was great. Then a couple of years ago, an American company bought the park and implemented new "american rules' such as not being allowed to bring your own food. This angered many people i know of since that's not the Canadian way. Sometimes we still manage to sneak in our own food when we go.

Theatres i guess i can understand cause its only a couple of hours. But theme parks! people are there all day. they need to eat and should not be forced to pay rediculous theme park food prices in order to satisfy their hunger. They should also not be forced to drive out of the park, go to a restaurant, then come back if they want to pay regular prices. I guess its legal because its want the company owning the theme park want and companies own the government, not the people. Isn't America's motto freedom?

Uh, just like you can enforce what gets brought into your house, theme parks and theaters can say what gets brought into their facilities. In the case of theme parks... if you can't afford to pay for their food and drinks (but want to eat/drink), don't go. It's as simple as that.

Does it really matter? It's not exactly hard to pull it off anyway.

I guess its legal because its want the company owning the theme park wantSTAR_Admiral

Looks like you answered your own question. Their park, their rules.

People sell food at theme parks to make money. If everyone brings their own food, they will lose a lot. harashawn

Sorta like using a website and having to follow their TOS. However, doesnt mean you can't go to your car and eat your lunch and go back in. ;)

Uh, just like you can enforce what gets brought into your house, theme parks and theaters can say what gets brought into their facilities. In the case of theme parks... if you can't afford to pay for their food and drinks (but want to eat/drink), don't go. It's as simple as that.

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[QUOTE="harashawn"]People sell food at theme parks to make money. If everyone brings their own food, they will lose a lot. STAR_Admiral

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Uh, just like you can enforce what gets brought into your house, theme parks and theaters can say what gets brought into their facilities. In the case of theme parks... if you can't afford to pay for their food and drinks (but want to eat/drink), don't go. It's as simple as that.

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Freedom > money?

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Uh, just like you can enforce what gets brought into your house, theme parks and theaters can say what gets brought into their facilities. In the case of theme parks... if you can't afford to pay for their food and drinks (but want to eat/drink), don't go. It's as simple as that.

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Uh, just like you can enforce what gets brought into your house, theme parks and theaters can say what gets brought into their facilities. In the case of theme parks... if you can't afford to pay for their food and drinks (but want to eat/drink), don't go. It's as simple as that.

Money. But I don't really care. I hate having extra crap when I go on rides. I just want my clothes and wallet on me.

That would bbe discrimination. I don't see how just beecause its your property your suddenly above the law. Federal law > the laws of your property. I can do what i want with my private property as long as it follows law, but if it conflicts with the law, then federal law wins. STAR_Admiral

Can you cite a law that guarantees you the right to carry a sandwich wherever you want?

For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. STAR_Admiral

For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. STAR_Admiral

You are within your right as a theater manager to remove paying customers who are talking during the film. Their "freedom of speech" doesn't trump the theater's policy.

[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"] That would bbe discrimination. I don't see how just beecause its your property your suddenly above the law. Federal law > the laws of your property. I can do what i want with my private property as long as it follows law, but if it conflicts with the law, then federal law wins. spazzx625

For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. STAR_Admiral

[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. Oleg_Huzwog

You are within your right as a theater manager to remove paying customers who are talking during the film. Their "freedom of speech" doesn't trump the theater's policy.

[QUOTE="spazzx625"][QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"] That would bbe discrimination. I don't see how just beecause its your property your suddenly above the law. Federal law > the laws of your property. I can do what i want with my private property as long as it follows law, but if it conflicts with the law, then federal law wins. STAR_Admiral

[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. mattykovax

The laws that states you are free to act as you wish as long as it does not harm others. This is summed up in many laws. I have the freedom to eat what i want as long as its not an illegal substance, or human. I have a right to eat! agreed? therefore no private property is allowed to deny that right unless such eating poses a harm to other people or the private event is not so long as i would starve. STAR_Admiral

Nobody is denying your "right to eat".

[QUOTE="Ontain"][QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"] Its private property for the public, thats different than my house. An apartment building is private property which is rented to the public, you can still bring your own food,STAR_Admiral

[QUOTE="mattykovax"][QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]For example; I own a theatre. I can decide what movies to play cause thats within the law. However i am not allowed to deny freedom of speech to customers of the theatre because that is federal law. STAR_Admiral

That is a very naive conception of freedom. Freedom is not the ability to do or say whatever you want whenever you want.

And no, it doesn't harm anybody.

[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"] The laws that states you are free to act as you wish as long as it does not harm others. This is summed up in many laws. I have the freedom to eat what i want as long as its not an illegal substance, or human. I have a right to eat! agreed? therefore no private property is allowed to deny that right unless such eating poses a harm to other people or the private event is not so long as i would starve. spazzx625

Telling people what they can eat and what they cannot eat? Such things are unheard of for any place where you stay for a long time, unless that place is american owned.

Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

No, it is not. Freedom is in part the ability to own your own property and make rules for what goes on in that property. You can't necessarily choose to harm yourself nor can you vandalise a building; that doesn't harm anyone and yet it is not allowed.

Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. Eating my own pizza at a theme park that also sells pizza does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. Eating my own pizza at a theme park that also sells pizza does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. Eating my own pizza at a theme park that also sells pizza does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The First Amendment

[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. Theokhoth

No, it is not. Freedom is in part the ability to own your own property and make rules for what goes on in that property. You can't necessarily choose to harm yourself nor can you vandalise a building; that doesn't harm anyone and yet it is not allowed.

let with clarify my defintion. Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others (with your property).STAR_Admiral

The park isn't harming you with their policy.

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[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

No, it is not. Freedom is in part the ability to own your own property and make rules for what goes on in that property. You can't necessarily choose to harm yourself nor can you vandalise a building; that doesn't harm anyone and yet it is not allowed.

Again, not in American law it is not. And again: the park is not harming or hurting you with its laws. There's a distinction between "hurt" and "harm."

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[QUOTE="STAR_Admiral"]Remember Freedom is the ability to do what you wish as long as it does not harm others. STAR_Admiral

No, it is not. Freedom is in part the ability to own your own property and make rules for what goes on in that property. You can't necessarily choose to harm yourself nor can you vandalise a building; that doesn't harm anyone and yet it is not allowed.