NOVELTY VEND wrote:
... for surely having occupied and traded from the site for over 30 years should be sufficient to ensure that a full licence is granted ....
Sometimes complacency sets in and people that have a good thing going slowly stop making the effort required to keep it all running so 30 years running doesn't, in my book, guarantee anything other than they should know better. Some of my restaurant customers have to yearly "jump through hoops" to be fully above board with various certificates and/or licences. If the powers that be are enforcing rules on Ricco that other restaurants already play to then that is surely the right thing to do ....