The following words and terms, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) "Employee" means any person employed in a public eating or drinking place who does or may in any manner handle or come in contact with food or drink served to or provided for the public and includes the proprietor or manager or any member of his family, if they handle such food or drink.
(b) "Proprietor" means any person who conducts a public eating or drinking place.
(c) "Public eating and drinking places" includes any place where food or drink is served to or provided for the public, with or without charge, such as hotels, restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, boarding houses, street vendors or stalls, ice cream saloons, soda water or soft drink fountains, bars or taverns, private, public, parochial or Sunday schools, churches, hospitals and public institutions, industries, factories, shops, offices, office buildings, stores, railroad stations, parks, picnic grounds, fair grounds, camp-meeting grounds, theatres or motion-picture houses, public pumps, wells, springs or other water supplies.
(1944 Code Ch. 13 §21.)