It's interesting how they're passing this after the public failure of the soda ban, one would think they'd be looking into more productive areas of legislation. I don't drink sugar and generally don't go out, but this doesn't seem to be solving consumer problems
The big, real problems aren't really solvable on a city level. And opposition can quash any obvious solutions.
Unfortunately this does lead to a lot of small, weak rules being passed because elected officials have to "do something" in order to stay in the public eye to get reelected.
It's fake work. You do some social restriction (usually on food) that follows upper middle-class aesthetics, the media cheers, and dinner parties are supportive. Even better if you specifically target it towards the poor*, or food that only poor people eat.
This, for example, is targeted towards chains. If every restaurant you eat at has fewer than 15 locations, it doesn't exist. Where do upper-middle class people eat?
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[*] like the fake work that RFK, Jr. is doing trying to make it impossible to buy soda and snack foods on SNAP. Only positive press he's gotten from NYT etc.. Yes, make those poor people eat better! But somehow also fat acceptance.
