Food and beverages are not to be prepared, kept or sold in the licensed premises. However, such prohibition shall not apply where such foodstuffs are prepared or kept in a room adequately ventilated with exhaust of fumes away from the public area and completely separate and apart from the workplace, or in the case of beverages which are kept in covered containers.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 19 § 160.23