File #: T2025-3699    Version: * Name: Prohibiting pricing increases based on real-time demand at food service establishments.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 6/11/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting pricing increases based on real-time demand at food service establishments
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would prohibit food establishments from using a dynamic pricing model that increases the price of any menu item based on real-time demand, which includes the number of individuals present in the food establishment. Any food establishment that violates this section would be liable for a civil penalty, for each day that a dynamic pricing model is used, of $500.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Members Menin, Hanif and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting pricing increases based on real-time demand at food service establishments

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Subchapter 9 of chapter 4 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-694 to read as follows:

§ 20-694 Prohibition on certain dynamic pricing a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Food service establishment. The term "food service establishment" has the same meaning as in section 81.03 of the New York city health code.

Menu or menu board. The term “menu or menu board” has the same meaning as in section 81.49 of the New York city health code.

b. Prohibition. No food service establishment shall use a dynamic pricing model that increases the price of any item on a menu or menu board based on a measure of real-time demand that accounts for the number of individuals physically present in the food service establishment at a point in time.

c. Penalties. A food service establishment that violates this section is liable for a civil penalty of $500 for each day that a dynamic pricing model is used.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS# 16198/16367

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