Can't See Your Burrito Being Made? That's Discrimination!

That's how the court sees it:

An appeals court has ruled that two Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurants in San Diego have violated a federal law protecting the rights of the disabled.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that customers in wheelchairs are denied the "Chipotle experience" of watching their food being prepared because the restaurants' 45-inch counters are too high.

The company now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

The unanimous three-judge ruling overturned a trial court decision pointing to Chipotle's willingness to prepare a disabled customer's order elsewhere. The appeals court said that is still unfair.

This is where the ADA goes completely off the tracks. It's one thing to guarantee that someone can access an establishment, but to guarantee that everything inside is equal for everyone just seems completely unrealistic.

What about "little people"? Are they considered disabled for the purposes of this law? Are we required to pick them up and set them on the counter like I used to do with my daughter at Subway so she could pick out stuff for her sandwich?

If this stands Chipotle will have to cancel the "Chipotle experience" for everyone, but that's what extreme interpretations of regulations tend to do.  Instead of creating more access, it will create less.