Looks like some places kind of let the state regulation slide, and they can get away with that as long as some state inspector isn't nosing around. I know at the clam shack in SoFreeMe, there is essentially an imaginary line right through some boulders that the pooches cannot cross. So you get a picnic table right near the boulders, and the pup sits on the other side of the rocks, two feet away from you.