Texas Attorney General Paxton sides with restaurants on enforcement of “Barbecue Bill”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sides with restaurants, retailers on enforcement of “Barbecue Bill.” The bill creates an exemption to the state’s scale registration law exempting establishments with scales “exclusively used to weigh food sold for immediate consumption,” Without spot checks and enforcement there will always be some who put their proverbial “thumb on the scale” giving you a pound of brisket that isn’t really a pound. The Texas Tribune has full coverage of this Texas size BBQ battle.

Source: Attorney General Ken Paxton sides with restaurants, retailers on enforcement of “Barbecue Bill”