Robert Kennedy could prove the most controversial Trump appointee for restaurants [Video]

Donald Trump roused plenty of controversy with his nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general, but it’s his selection of Robert Kennedy Jr. as the nation’s next food and health czar that should worry the restaurant business, according to the industry-centric election analysis that makes up this week’s Working Lunch podcast.

Although Kennedy may be best known as a vaccine doubter, he’s also ripped the food business for flooding the U.S. market with highly processed options. If he should act on those convictions, as the evidence suggests he will, the eccentric with the famous name “will likely cause shock waves up and down the supply chain,” observed Working Lunch co-host Joe Kefauver. As a principal of the political consulting firm Align Public Strategies, he’s seen how disruptive a scrambling of that sort can be. 

No doubt about it, there could be some significant impact, agreed podcast co-host and Align partner …