Zac Cornfoot could speak with more authority on this than I can, but I think that restaurants are the canary in the coal mine in terms of economic wellness and regulatory sensibility in any given geographic location. Emeril says Obama stuff, and he is right that federal regulatory burdens from the FDA, EPA, OSHA and others are becoming extreme, but this really isnt about just federal regulations and economic policy. It also involves state and local regulations that strangle businesses by taking the owner out of the kitchen or off the sales floor and puts them in the back office, trying to trip though this Viet Cong style series of tripwires that can bring down their business with fines in a matter of a month if they get it wrong. Law and order types (not fans of the TV show, silly) will say that Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but when the laws become thousands of pages of regulations you must meet, at each level of government no less, and you need a full legal team just to comply with them, either prices go up to be able to afford it, the company goes out of business, or it has to become a huge corporation to ameliorate the costs of meeting these burdens. What this results in for you, with regard to restaurants, is less choice, worse products and a smattering of high end offerings that become a once a year special occasion rather than something that could be enjoyed once a month or so.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:59:32 +0000
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