For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FOOD DISPENSER. Any person that keeps for sale, sells, and serves to the general public for consumption on the premises, or on the sidewalk or public street contiguous to the premises, any article of food or drink for human consumption. Restaurants, ordinaries, coffee houses, ice cream parlors, lunch rooms, tea rooms, lunch stands, box lunch deliveries, luncheonettes, cafeterias, and retail drug stores serving counter lunches and drinks shall be included among FOOD DISPENSERS.
SERVES. The placing of such food for the convenience of the patron into any cup, glass, cone, dish, plate, or other receptacle from which the patron may conveniently consume it.
SERVICE ACCOMMODATION. The seating place where one patron or customer to be served can be seated, or in lieu of a seating space, two lineal feet of counter space which may be used or occupied by one patron or customer to be served while standing; provided, that for the purpose of computing the number of SERVICE ACCOMMODATIONS at a counter where no fixed seats or stools are provided, each such counter shall be considered as a separate unit and any fractional part of two lineal feet at a side or end shall be excluded.
(1977 Code, § 5-3-1)