Re: Minimum Wage Rises to $7.25
- From: Mark Borgerson <mborgerson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:08:58 -0700
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On Jul 26, 3:42 pm, "Stanley Moore" <smoor...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jul 26, 11:15 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Jul 26, 11:10 am, Mark Borgerson <mborger...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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5d9d0f310...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, deemsb...@xxxxxxx says....
On Jul 26, 3:51 am, Andrew Swallow <am.swal...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
On Jul 25, 10:26 am, "deemsb...@xxxxxxx" <deemsb...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Jul 25, 10:16 am, "Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Good news!Did you get a raise?
Millions of teenagers who want summer jobs will no longer get them
because most restaurants, etc work on tiny profit margins and this
will keep them from hiring that additional teenage part timer..
Thus
my son and daughter are having trouble finding part time work to
pay
for college.
*All* the restaurants will put their prices up. The important
question is "Will people buy the more expensive meals?"
Uh, no. Most are going to try to eat the cost, at least
initially. Then, we'll probably see other cost-cutting methods tried
first......wait for slight portion size reductions, reductions in crew
size, etc first. Everyone is afraid raising prices will drive already
skittish customers away.
In most American chain restaurants, reducing portion sizes would be
a good thing. Perhaps cutting out the 'All you can eat shrimp' would
be a good start. Cutting back the grand slam breakfasts from 1200
to 800 calories would be good for just about everyone except football
linemen facing two-a-day practices.
The companies that have problems with minimum wage laws are those
that cannot prices because they have foreign competitors.
Mark Borgerson
Calories, schmalories, cut the salt.
Denny's is sued over high-salt food
I
Two Denny's buttermilk pancakes alone contain about half the suggested
maximum daily sodium intake. The restaurant chain says the lawsuit
against it is frivolous.
Some meals contain more sodium than a person should eat in two whole
days. The New Jersey lawsuit wants the restaurant chain to list sodium
content on its menus and warn about health risks.
By Jerry Hirsch
July 24, 2009
Doctors recommend against eating more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium
a day. Order a Denny's double cheeseburger and you'll consume 3,880
milligrams in one sitting, almost double the suggested daily allowance
of salt.
Denny's meals "are dangerously high in sodium," according to a lawsuit
filed Thursday by a New Jersey man with the support of the Center for
Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit group active in nutrition
and food safety issues.
Nutrition advocates have won legislative and corporate lobbying
battles to rid most of the food industry of artery-clogging trans fats
and to compel restaurant chains in some cities and states to reveal
the calorie counts of their foods. Now, they're turning their guns on
salt.
"We have clear and convincing evidence that sodium is associated with
high blood pressure, and high blood pressure is a major risk factor
for stroke -- and it is pretty consistent across populations and
ethnic groups," said Dr. David Katz, a preventive medicine specialist
at Yale University Medical School. "It is unconscionable that a single
meal would have 2,000 milligrams or more of sodium," Katz said.
The New Jersey Superior Court lawsuit alleges that Denny's heavy use
of salt puts "the restaurant chain's customers at greater risk of high
blood pressure, heart attack and stroke." The lawsuit asks the court
to order Denny's to list the sodium content of its food on the menu
and warn about the hazards of consuming salt in high doses.
Denny's Corp., which is based in Spartanburg, S.C., called the suit
"frivolous and without merit."
"With hundreds of items on the menu, Denny's offers a wide variety of
choices for consumers with different lifestyles, understanding that
many have special dietary needs," said the company, which has about
1,500 restaurants nationwide.
Some of the data cited in the lawsuit was mined from nutrition
listings on the Denny's website.
The lawsuit was filed in Middlesex County on behalf of Nick
DeBenedetto, a 48-year-old resident of Tinton Falls, N.J., who said he
takes medicine to control blood pressure. DeBenedetto is seeking class-
action status for the suit.
DeBenedetto said he "was astonished" to learn the sodium content of
Denny's food. "I never would have selected those items had I known."
Salt-laden selections include the Meat Lover's Scramble, an
amalgamation of cheese, eggs, bacon, diced ham and sausage that comes
with more meat on the side plus hash browns and pancakes. The meal has
5,690 milligrams of sodium --
Gee, a meal with bacon, ham, sausage, etc that's high in sodium?
Go figure. This guy is an idiot.
the equivalent of nearly three days'
Maybe I'm a bit more up on what's in food. A couple pieces of bacon
or sausage have close to a day's content.
advised maximum salt intake. A scrambled eggs and cheddar cheese meal
on the Denny's "senior" menu has 2,060 milligrams of sodium.
Such heavy intake could trigger congestive heart failure in some high-
risk patrons, said Dr. Stephen Havas, adjunct professor of preventive
medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed the lawsuit after
private talks with Denny's failed to persuade the chain to make the
kind of broad sodium reductions or menu disclosures that the group
urged, said Michael Jacobson, the group's executive director.
Wow, here come the food police. Here's a novel idea.....find out
what you're eating. If what a restaurant offers doesn't fit your
needs, go somewhere else. Who is putting a gun to anyone's head?
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Most places do not make it easy to find out what is in your food. I would
like to know the calories and fats and sodium in the dishes I am served but
finding it out is not easy. I often eat at Dennys and often order the omelet
(not hte meatlovers) because they are fairly light. I had no idea so much
sodium was in it.
Most places have it on their websites, have it posted, or will
provide it upon request. I'd bet nearly all national chains do at
least two of those three.
Some even have info on their menus.....usually calories and
diabetic exchanges.
Restaurants do not like people to know these things because they fear
(rightly) that folks might buy less and that hits the bottom line. Another
factor in the sodium controversy tells me the food must not be of very good
quality if it requires so much salt in order to taste good. You can make
tasty food with much lower salt levels but many chains don't do that. Take
care
Well, we are discussing Denny's :-) but that's not necessarily
the case. Eggs are eggs, etc."Flavor enhancers" (MSG, anyone?) are
used too much because they allow food to be made more economically.
IOW, chicken soup can be made with one pound of chicken and one pound
of MSG rather than two pounds of chicken. Preservatives probably
account for some of the rest of the excess sodium. Have you checked
sodium levels of packaged supermarket food?
LOL! I would think that a pound of MSG would be more than about
$3. Perhaps you meant a pound of chicken and and ounce of MSG?
Mark Borgerson
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