Restaurants in NYC are flaming mad over new ‘environmental’ crackdown on char broilers

New regulations in New York have restauranteurs up in arms as environmental crackdowns are causing them grief.

The recently implemented changes will affect locations that use charbroilers, which are often used to add a mouth-watering smokey flavor to meat and fish. These restaurants are effectively being told they need to either cut their emissions by a whopping 75% or find another way to prepare their food.

New York Post reports that any businesses that use char-broilers to prepare “more than 875 pounds of meat per week would be barred from operating unless they install an emissions control device to curb pollutants if their charbroilers were installed before May 6, 2016.”

Alan Rosen, who owns Junior’s restaurant, has three restaurants that char-broil meat. He says New York lawmakers should be more concerned about “people getting knifed in the subway” than how he prepares his food.

“We grill with an open flame. We’ve been doing this for almost 75 years. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Rosen ranted. “The government should focus on quality-of-life issues and stop messing with my burgers. This is a government that’s gone haywire. This shouldn’t be on anyone’s radar.”

The new rules could affect as many as 200 eateries and cost thousands of dollars in upgrades, unless they qualify for a “hardship variance.”

X users also had a lot to say on New York’s nanny state approach to governance:

Meanwhile China opens yet another coal burning power plant today!!!

— katie wright (@katiewr31413491) January 12, 2025

Sheesh, things are getting really crowded down here in FL. I don’t know how many more new NYC rules we can handle.

— T-SwiftWord (@brianjb_fl) January 13, 2025

All these “climate change” policies are useless and hurt small businesses

— Hit Girl (@hitgirl1970) January 12, 2025

Pack it up the planet has finally been saved

— Brooke Lin (@DTBrooklynGuy) January 13, 2025

That’s it we’re gonna exclusively char broil our potatoes from now on

— Spud & Root (@spudandroot) January 13, 2025

All the going on in NYC and they focus on char broil.

— Linda Cosy (@lindacosylife) January 12, 2025

That is simply going to end NYC as a foodie heaven.
You all voted for this. First the pizza ovens, then the burgers.

I think NYC tourism will drive down as the crime becomes more common knowledge and foodie options drop.

— Dog Owner. No crypto. (@external_idea) January 13, 2025

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