{"id":239225,"date":"2026-07-09T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:00:12","slug":"roll-r-way-settles-complaint-over-outside-food-policy-at-pennsylvania-skating-rinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239225\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll R Way settles complaint over outside food policy at Pennsylvania skating rinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A Pennsylvania skating rink operator has agreed to amend its outside food and drink policy after federal officials ruled it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office announced a civil settlement for <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/mduckworth\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Olk\/Attachments\/ooa-5bd52b2a-03b4-4c7e-95af-5ca659839cc8\/4767ef7420bdb2131e5b6e1f754f910c86a9010974d7233b500107a1607a0135\/Roll%20R%20Way%20settle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roll R Way<\/a>, which runs skating centers in York, Chambersburg, and Donora, after turning away families with children who have Type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials received several complaints alleging that families were turned away because they brought small amounts of food and drink to help regulate their children&#8217;s blood sugar levels. <\/p>\n<p>Roll R Way was found to have enforced a &#8220;no outside food or drink&#8221; policy, but failed to make exceptions for medical needs, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>This policy kept families from enjoying the roller skating rink and could affect potential customers with food allergies or other dietary restrictions, resulting in an ADA violation.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, Roll R Way will also pay each family who filed a complaint $500. However, the settlement did not affirm whether or not Roll R Way admitted culpability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A Pennsylvania skating rink operator has agreed to amend its outside food and drink policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}