Stupid Government Regulations Increasing Costs to Customers (AGAIN)

I also have some lobbyist articles. Would this be a good place to put them?

 

Since fast food restaurants started posting calorie information, it has greatly changed my eating habits. It is great for our fat ass country.

If it cost him $5K per year to provide accurate information per restaurant, he is a terrible businessman who throws away money.

 

Burdensome regulations that inform the public on what crap goes into fast food.

 

1. If he has 20 locations, I wouldn't call him a "small business owner".
2. If he has to spend $5,000 for menu boards, he needs to find a new printing service. And why is he having to spend that annually ... unless he keeps changing his menu, in which case he's re-printing them anyway.
3. Why the hell does he think his store in Midland needs to calculate 34 million different combinations of calories? Does his menu feature all 34 million options?

Either this guy is a moron or he has an agenda and doesn't actually care about facts. That's typical of the OP posts, though, so not terribly surprising. Larger companies around the nation complained about this in the past too. Then they implemented it, and not surprisingly, it turned out not to be a big deal.

 

The irony is he seems to be for more regulation regarding the actual contents of the food, since that is what really matters. Just a question of does he believe those unhealthy ingredients need better disclosure or to be banned altogether.

 

The truth here is probably their pizza calories are way up there and the ceo is scared that it will have a major impact on his sales when that info becomes readily available to consumers. Anti regulation is more an excuse here than anything. Fact chk me and call me wrong..

For what it’s worth, I think calories counting is both way too simplistic and not the primary concern for a “healthy” diet.

 

There are some bad regulation that have a burdensome cost..

But this doesn’t pass the smell this. It doesn’t cost $5k per year per store as the ceo claimed.

I have been to a few fast food places in the past year. Almost all of them have large electronic signage display (tv). Should be a fixed one time cost with a small maintenance fee to put up some textual info on an electronic screen.

 

No, I know the costs. I own and have owned several small businesses. I know there are very problematic and ill-designed regulations out there. I also know business owners that cry foul over nonsense - and this is one of them.

If you (or this guy) want to make a facts-based argument against regulation, I'm all for it. But the stuff that he spouted is total nonsense that doesn't remotely pass the smell test. You seem to repeatedly post this kind of stuff, which tells me you either don't know anything about business or are more interested in posting propaganda as well hoping that no one calls you out on it.

For starters, if he has just 20 locations, he likely has at least 200 FTE's - meaning an annual payroll over $6MM and likely annual sales well over $20MM. Ignoring the fact that he tries to claim he's a small business, even if he wants to moronically spend $90k per year on menu boards for no reason, it wouldn't increase costs to his consumers by any noticeable amount. If he's smart and actually knows how to print things at reasonable prices, it would be even more negligible.

Calorie counts are not too helpful when comparing different *types* of food. But when debating Pizza A vs Pizza B vs Pizza C, it can be fairly helpful. We've seen that across the board when these regulations have changed consumer behavior in the past - it tells us that consumers are making different decisions when presented with additional information.

 

That's the reason they are against it - because it means people will order less if they see the caloric content of their food.

Restaurants in NYC have been doing this for years. They don't know what you want in your food, so they put a range from top to bottom - chipotle does this. I doubt it costs them $5k/restaurant to do that. McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's - they all do it.

Do people order less because of it? I'm sure, but I don't understand why this guy wants to deny people information so they will make more money (let's call out his BS here). And now you have this OP supporting this because he wants business to keep secrets so people will order more unhealthy food instead of empowering them with info.

 

I think you fail to understand how business hurts the public without rules controlling their behavior. It's like you don't know anything about history. Like nothing, zip.

 

I understand the trepidation some have with "mainstream media" but when you only get "news" from propagandistic ideological backwater fever swamps you are an idiot.

 

So this guy is saying that customers aren't ignorant enough and gives opinions to people ignorant enough to take him seriously?

 

This position that any and all government regulations are horrible/evil and kill small businesses is a pretty poisonous mindset that seems to have really taken hold in the Republican party in recent years. It's very similar to the way that they seem to view taxes and the overall government in general as well. There definitely are regulatory practices that have detrimental impacts on business environments, I see it a lot in local governments that I do work in (Austin is a great example of this), but there are also a lot of regulations that are practical and make sense but there seems to be no nuance in evaluating these kinds of things from people like the OP. In fact, I bet the OP is exactly the type of person who thinks that governments shouldn't even be regulating things like drinking water quality, as ridiculous as that sounds.

 

If you upgrade from cardboard sign to a cutting edge electronics display system due to a burdensome compliance regime, 5k adds up fast.

 

I’m pretty sure they already have digital signage. If not, they should be there for other reasons.

 

I just chuckled at this:


"That day, President Trump’s FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb will implement a nationwide, Obama-era menu-labeling rule requiring restaurants with 20 or more locations to post in-store menu boards listing the calories of every item sold."

THOUGHT TRUMP implemented .. . .they trying to find a way to blame Obama for it

Rocket River

 

So sad they still want to blame everything on President Obama.

 

What do you expect, Obama took away everyone’s guns.