"Ruth Hansom stated, 'I got a call at the back end of last year saying what we're doing is illegal, which obviously I was like, oh my God. We thought we were doing everything right. We weren't charging for it.'"
"Hansom explained the situation, saying, 'We had people coming from bigger towns like York and Darlington in an Uber thinking they could get one back, but they couldn't.'"
"'We were getting lots of people deciding to walk home in the pitch black, which obviously is not safe,' Hansom noted, highlighting the dangers faced by customers."
"'People were bringing a change of shoes and they'd say: Oh, we're just going to walk home. We were like, oh gosh, let's take you home because there's no streetlights or anything down some of these roads.'"
A couple running a restaurant in North Yorkshire began offering free rides to customers who had no safe way to get home. This service was popular but was deemed illegal by the council under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. Ruth Hansom, a celebrated chef, expressed surprise at the council's ruling, as they were not charging for the service. The lack of public transport options in the area led to customers walking home in unsafe conditions, prompting the restaurant's initiative to help.
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