On sunny Saturdays and Sundays, Chad Munsey can welcome as many as three dogs an hour who come with their families to enjoy barbecue on the outdoor patio at his San Marco restaurant the Bearded Pig.
So it was a surprise when a health inspector from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation showed up late last year, saying that there had been a complaint and that allowing pets on the patio was against code in Jacksonville.
“What do you mean we’re not allowed to have dogs on the patio? Everybody has them,” Munsey told Jacksonville Today of his conversation with the inspector…