Diet laws and packaging mandates look like the entrees du jour for 2019.
As restaurateurs discover themselves questioning what to do subsequent to navigate these points and their associated challenges, the Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation will supply schooling and recommendation throughout a Dec. 19 webinar, “What’s new in environmental and nutrition policy”.
Laura Abshire, our meals and sustainability coverage director, will present an replace on the problems. They embrace:
- The newest info on the anti-plastic motion, a part of which seeks to ban using straws or requires operators to offer them solely upon request
- Mandates on packaging procurement, reminiscent of which compostable and/or sustainable packaging is suitable to be used and which isn’t
- Laws requiring natural waste to be separated and composted by the restaurant as an alternative of being despatched to landfill, and
- On the vitamin entrance, a transfer to require operators to alter their youngsters’s meal default beverage choices on their menus
“We expect these points will change into much more widespread in 2019, and that’s why we’re attempting to arrange and educate operators so they’re on high of the problems and educated about how one can be ready,” Abshire mentioned. “The aim,” she continued, “is to offer our business members with info to allow them to ask suppliers about different merchandise accessible to them, and likewise guarantee they can discuss to their legislators about these proposed insurance policies and the way they’ll impression companies and their native economies.”
Be proactive, not reactive; register right now to participate in the webinar
