Obamacare pizza crackdown

This local item irritated the hell out of me:

As the recovery set in, I eagerly began growing my business once again. Unfortunately, just at this time, I was surprised and disappointed to learn that the 2010 health care bill specifically targets pizzerias with costly and nonsensical regulations.

Section 4205 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act states restaurants like mine must provide nutritional information for all menu items. While I support the end-goal of this rule whole-heartedly, the authors clearly had no understanding of the businesses they sought to regulate.

For starters, they don’t realize that the majority of my business is done by delivery. The regulation requires that I maintain expensive, in-store menu boards, despite the fact that 90 percent of orders are placed either by phone or online, meaning that the vast majority of my customers will never see these menu boards, let alone act on them. Domino’s implemented an online calorie counter in order to get customized information directly to these customers.

In addition, the regulations would mandate that I label per whole pizza, instead of per-slice. But pizza is a shared meal, and most people are not thinking of having to do long division when they are eating just a slice or two. The law also requires stores to provide the calorie count for every possible type of pizza. For my chain, Domino’s, there are 34 million possible combinations (yes, we counted each one). To account for such a customizable product, I would have to provide calorie ranges capturing the lowest to highest possible calorie combination for every pizza. But since there are so many options, the ranges could be extremely wide – up to 2,000 calories in some cases. I fail to see how this overly-broad information will help consumers.

Help consumers? Please, give me a break!

People who order pizzas to go are not interested in being “helped” by some stupid and condescending government-mandated notice or calorie count. They are hungry. And the government just wants to place more roadblocks between them and their food.

As to what provision of the Constitution gives the government power over pizza, forget it.

Imagine what other crap is buried in that 2000 page monstrosity.

What is going on is pure, unadulterated tyranny, and far, far worse than what the founders of this country considered cause for revolution.


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2 responses to “Obamacare pizza crackdown”

  1. CTimbo Avatar
    CTimbo

    “While I support the end-goal of this rule whole-heartedly”

    Then IMO you deserve what you get. And be sure to keep voting for Stabenow and Levin.

  2. Donna B. Avatar

    I read this… and then I ordered pizza.