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February 18, 2025
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This week on Nation's Restaurant News the top story was Policy on the Menu: How DEI pushback is reshaping the restaurant industry. Shortly after taking office for the second time in January, President Donald Trump released a flurry of executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs — touting them as “discriminatory” and in possible violation of “the civil-rights laws of this nation.”
Although most of these laws target federal institutions like the executive order that specifically orders the Federal Aviation Administration to halt “Biden DEI hiring programs,” the private sector will be impacted as well. In the executive order released on Jan. 21, Trump orders “all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities,” though does not outright ban diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
In other news, Red Robin’s chief marketing officer Kevin Mayer has departed the company. In a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission Tuesday, the company reported that no severance agreement is in place at this time and such an agreement will be amended.
No reasons were given regarding Mayer’s departure, nor were there any details about an interim replacement.
Also, Chick-fil-A is testing reusable drink caddies after two owner-operators began seeking solutions to save on paper costs while also cutting down on paper waste. According to a post on the company’s website, the optional two-drink caddy is made from Polypropylene and was created with input from Chris Walker, a multi-restaurant owner-operator in Charleston, S.C., and John Spenst, owner-operator of a Chick-fil-A in Little Rock, Ark.
See what else was trending on NRN.com this week.
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