Fast Food Coalition Formed to Counter Prohibitive Legislation

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Inner-City Fast Food Coalition has been established to recruit, organize and mobilize local restaurant owners and operators.  Specific goals of the coalition will be to focus on newly introduced legislation PG 415-10 sponsored by Prince George's County Delegation Senator David Harrington.  

The coalition will look to present Prince George's County residents with all the necessary information to make informed decisions regarding the pending legislation, health agency findings and nutritional information from local restaurants.  The process has already begun and an all out effort is underway to contact legislators to voice opposition to PG 415-10 as it is currently written.

While the initial push-back on the pending legislation will come from local restaurant owners and operators, coalition members will enlist the support of restaurateurs from Virginia and Washington, DC.  

Coalition organizer Aaron Manaigo, a partner at the Washington, DC-based lobbying firm Fenner, Gray & Associates, stated, "This is a very serious issue for restaurant owners and operators across the country, similar legislation was recently passed in Los Angeles and has caused adverse effects there.  While we clearly understand that citizen health and well being should always be taken into account, the rights of restaurant entrepreneurs operating legal enterprises should not be abrogated.  Legislators should also take note that as an industry these same establishments they are looking to prohibit represent one of the state's largest employers."

SOURCE The Inner-City Fast Food Coalition