In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies discuss the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement’s growth, and its potential threat to restaurants.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blames tobacco companies for getting children addicted to ultra-processed foods.
The connection? In the 1990s, many tobacco companies diversified after the big tobacco settlement and they bought up controlling interests in other industries, including food companies. Some of that ownership remains. Kefauver and Coley speculate whether restaurant menu items could be viewed in the same light as cigarettes.
Also on this podcast, an update on the latest developments in Minneapolis and how restaurants and employees may be intentionally entering the fray around the ongoing immigration enforcement action there.
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