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3) Restaurants are private property, just like homes. The restaurant owner is on his own property when he makes the soup.



this is a settled legal issue, it is public if anyone can come in. some membership deals are private though.

think can restaurant owner not serve blacks.



So I can just ban one person and then it's not public and I can do what I want?

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no I think if it is not open to the general public like if you need a membership to get in, that's how some bars used to operate in dry counties anyways.

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You realize how much of a joke this is, right? I used to work in a dry county in Arkansas. There was a "private club" downtown, which not only accepted membership applications from anyone on the spot no questions asked, they went so far as to advertise. Technically, such advertising is against the rules, so they would take out billboard space and use it for "notices" for their members, not advertisement to the general public. You would literally have a billboard on the side of the interstate that said something like this:

(tiny 10 pt type) attention members and guests

(BIG HUGE LETTERS) ZOMG WE HAVE BOOZE DOWNTOWN

In practice, the only thing that made this a "private" club was that they said it was "private".