National Restaurant Association (NRA) and California Restaurant Association (CRA) get rich off new California Food Handler Law at behest of their membership
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) and partner California Restaurant Association (CRA) pushed the California Food Handler Law, which creates a monopoly for themselves, gaining millions in revenue at the behest of the public.
- San Jose, CA (1888PressRelease) May 20, 2011 - SB602, sponsored by the NRA/CRA, was signed into law in 2010. Since then, public outcry and common sense has exposed the NRA/CRA as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The law was orchestrated to give a market monopoly to the sponsors in an anticompetitive environment. This monopoly excludes legitimate training providers (labeled as shady) from providing superior products and services at a lower price. The public outcry, and common sense, brought about SB303, said to be passed in May, but is being held up by the NRA/CRA as they continue to money grab through the July 1 implementation.
The NRA and their partner association, the CRA, are powerful organizations that lobby heavily for their self-interests under the guise of bettering the industry. Their executives are compensated with heavy bonuses dependent on their ability to monetize every situation, like the California Food Handler Law. They have extensive past history using anti-competitive behaviors to their advantage and many feel that they have become an industry leader in using unethical tactics.
As the only provider of food handler training under SB602, Jot Condie, CEO of the CRA, has shown his advocacy to his membership, "The burden of obtaining the card is on the employee. Some employers are purchasing cards for their existing employees, then making it a condition of employment for prospective employees." Restaurant operators have thoroughly enjoyed and are responding well to the mandate to ensure all food handlers be trained, relishing at the thought of forcing all food handlers to pay, out of their handsome compensation packages, for this training.
The NRA/CRA appears to believe that corporations, in this period of a bustling economy with such low unemployment rates, have been thrilled to pay for this training. Condie continues, "Unlike other food safety training providers, the dollars you invest in ServSafe help support and fuel our industry-from political advocacy to scholarships and education."
One thing is certain-operators are thinking twice about sending their membership dues to an organization that fuels this kind of advocacy, with executives that get multi-million dollar bonuses from legislation such as this. They could, instead, just pay someone to punch them in the face.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Swift at sillyNRA ( @ ) gmail dot com dot
Information about these questionable business practices can be obtained from Jot Condie, CEO of the CRA, at 1-800-765-4842. Expect spin.
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