15.60.010 Definitions.

          As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings:

          1.   “Customer” shall mean anyone purchasing food or beverages from a restaurant or retail food vendor.

          2.   “Food packager” shall mean any person, located within the City of West Hollywood, who places meat, eggs, baked products, or other food in packaging materials for the purpose of retail sale of those products.

          3.   “Food packaging” shall mean all bags, sacks, wrapping, containers, bowls, plates, trays, cartons, cups, straws and lids which are not intended for reuse, on or in which any foods or beverages are placed or packaged on a restaurant’s or retail food vendor’s premises.

          4.   “Non-profit food provider” shall mean a recognized tax exempt organization which provides food as a part of its services.

          5.   “Person” or “anyone” shall mean any natural person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other organization or group however organized.

          6.   “Polystyrene” shall mean and include polystyrene foam which is a thermoplastic petrochemical material utilizing a styrene monomer and processed by any number of techniques including, but not limited to, fusion of polymer spheres (expandable bead polystyrene), injection molding, foam molding, and extrusion-blow molding (extruded foam polystyrene). The term “polystyrene” also includes clear polystyrene known as “oriented polystyrene.”

          7.   “Polystyrene food packaging” shall mean any food packaging which contains polystyrene foam or oriented polystyrene.

          8.   “Prepared food” shall mean food or beverages which are served on the vendor’s premises without preparation or are prepared on the vendor’s premises by cooking, chopping, slicing, mixing, brewing, freezing, or squeezing. Prepared food may be eaten either on or off the vendor’s premises.

          9.   “Restaurant” shall mean any establishment located within the City of West Hollywood selling prepared food to be eaten on or about its premises by customers. “Restaurant” includes a sidewalk food vendor.

          10. “Retail food vendor” shall mean all sales outlets, stores, shops, vehicles, or other places of business located within the City of West Hollywood which operate primarily to sell or convey foods or beverages directly to the ultimate consumer, which foods or beverages are predominantly contained, wrapped, or held in or on packaging. Retail food vendor shall include, but is not limited to: any place where food is prepared, mixed, cooked, baked, smoked, preserved, bottled, packaged, handled, stored, manufactured, and sold or offered for sale, including, but not limited to, any fixed or mobile restaurant; drive-in; coffee shop; cafeteria; short-order café; delicatessen; luncheonette; grill; sandwich shop; soda fountain; bed-and-breakfast inn; tavern; bar; cocktail lounge; night club; roadside stand; take-out prepared food place; industrial feeding establishment; catering kitchens; mobile food preparation unit; commissary; grocery store; public food market; produce stand; food stand; lunch wagon; hotels; or similar place in which food or drink is prepared for sale or for service on the premises or elsewhere; and any other establishment or operation where food is processed, prepared, stored, served, or provided for the public for charge.

          11. “Retail vendor” shall mean any store, shop, sales outlet, or other establishment which sells food packaging.

(Ord. 90-261 § 2, 1990; prior code § 5800)