Episode 376: Big Beautiful Bill Threatens Industry Food Donation Programs

The big beautiful bill may be big and it may be beautiful but it is far from perfect. Lots of errors and missteps are becoming clearer and one big one may significantly impact corporate charitable contributions and in the restaurant industry, food donation is at the top of the list. We talk to Jim Larson, the Vice President of Development for Food Donation Connection - a major industry partner - to discuss the potential impacts the changing tax law may have on one of our industry’s largest charitable endeavors.

And the MAHA train keeps rolling down the tracks with major developments around Coca-Cola, the ice cream industry, and newly-approved additives by the FDA. We’ll discuss.

We’ll talk about those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.