on
Morning Edition promoting his book,
Conscious Capitalism.
He gives a concise and illuminating description of the challenges of being in business today.
"Customers want lower prices and higher quality;employees want higher wages, better benefits, and better working conditions; suppliers want to give fewer discounts and want you to pick up more of their products; communities want more donations, governments want higher taxes; investors want higher dividends and higher stock prices. Every one of the stakeholders wants more. They always want more."
In a restaurant, it might be spelled "steakholders", but power of the customer cannot be underestimated. For the most part, bad food that is is not healthy is something that is done FOR the customer and not TO the customer.
It is clear that more food education is needed to help consumers make better choices. It is not being done in public schools most of us attend and not even a corporation with a conscience will do it. Now it is left to the government to post calorie charts in all chain restaurants. I am not sure we have seen the end of the problem.