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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2025 · 1H 10M

Episode 372: The Future of Food Policy and the Restaurant Industry

from The Working Lunch · host Align Public Strategies

We visit once again with Maggie Gentile, a partner at Food Directions and our industry’s resident expert on food policy, who stopped by the pod to talk about last week’s MAHA Commission report - what’s in it, what wasn’t in it, what comes next, and lastly, what it means to operators. And the industry had a big week on both coasts with regard to minimum wage. We’ll talk about the effort underway in Washington, DC taht paused and may fully repeal the voter-passed ballot initiative to eliminate the tip credit as well as a new campaign in Los Angeles to roll back the city’s new $30/hr minimum wage law for hospitality workers. We’ll talk about those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.

We visit once again with Maggie Gentile, a partner at Food Directions and our industry’s resident expert on food policy, who stopped by the pod to talk about last week’s MAHA Commission report - what’s in it, what wasn’t in it, what comes next, and lastly, what it means to operators. And the industry had a big week on both coasts with regard to minimum wage. We’ll talk about the effort underway in Washington, DC taht paused and may fully repeal the voter-passed ballot initiative to eliminate the tip credit as well as a new campaign in Los Angeles to roll back the city’s new $30/hr minimum wage law for hospitality workers. We’ll talk about those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.

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