Winter 2019 F&B Legal Update | Winter 2019 F&B Legal Update | Modern Restaurant Management | The Business of Eating & Restaurant Management News

Pooja S. Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine.

LegislationCalifornia Grapples with Regulation of Home Kitchens: On October 7, 2019, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 377, to increase regulations on microenterprise home kitchens. The bill generally prohibits a third-party delivery service from delivering food produced by a microenterprise home kitchen operation, with a limited exception for customers with disabilities. Additionally, the bill prohibits microenterprise home kitchens from producing milk or milk products, including cheese and ice cream. This bill represents California’s continuing struggle to regular microenterprise home kitchen operations. Last year, the California Legislature passed AB 626, which amended the California Retail Food Code to allowed “microenterprise home kitchen operations” to…

Pooja S. Nair

A partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP, Pooja S. Nair is a business litigator and problem solver with a focus on the food and beverage sector. She advises food and beverage clients, startups and other businesses on a comprehensive range of issues, including employment, trade secrets, partnership disputes, contract negotiations and intellectual property.

Nair focuses on finding creative, long-term solutions to the business problems affecting companies of all sizes, from startups to publicly traded entities. She combines litigation experience with a strategic perspective, so that legal decisions make sense on a business level.

Prior to joining ECJ, Nair practiced at TroyGould, where she was the head of the Food and Beverage practice group. She also spent five years at Foley & Lardner focused on white collar criminal defense and internal investigations.

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Pooja S. Nair