Press Releases
NCCR
in the News
"We
oppose them because of the administrative and logistical burden
involved . . . Our members are already providing the information
[in brochures] in restaurants and on their web sites."
--
NCCR Senior Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson,
commenting on state legislative efforts to require restaurant
labeling of nutrition information, in Nation's Restaurant
News, March 24, 2003.
"It
may be a tradeoff that's worthwhile."
--
NCCR Senior Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson,
commenting on the possible increased payroll costs that
could result from the Department of Labor's planned revision
of the Fair Labor Standards Act executive employee overtime
exemption, versus the cost savings from reduced wage and
hour class action litigation, in Washington Business
Journal, April 14, 2003.
"The
2001 tax cuts were a good start to get the economy moving
again. It's time to give the economy another boost, and the
[President's] proposal is the right prescription at the right
time."
—
NCCR Senior Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson,
commenting on President Bush's tax relief, jobs, and growth
proposal, in Restaurant Business, February 1, 2003.
"It's
all about moderation, exercise, common sense. But they don't
give the American consumer that kind of credit."
—
NCCR President Terrie Dort, commenting on a report issued
by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which
attacks the pizza industry as contributing to overweight
and obesity, in Nation's Restaurant News, June 17,
2002
"If
HMO's and other providers are subject to increased liability,
they will have to raise their costs and they will pass them
on to the employer . . . ."
—
NCCR Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson, commenting
on the proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" in
Congress and its effect on employer health insurance premium
costs, in Nation's Restaurant News, February 4, 2002.
"This
is a pretty significant decision . . . It's definitely favorable
for empoyers and the [restaurant] industry. . . Basically
it says that when you are trying to evaluate whether an employee
is disabled, you have to look at it on a big-picture basis,
not on a job-task basis."
—
NCCR General Counsel Jim Coleman, commenting on a recent
Supreme Court ruling involving the Americans with Disabilities
Act, in Nation's Restaurant News, January 21, 2002.
"The
difference between this and previous administrations is "like
night and day. This administration understands the difficulties
in today's environment that employers and businesses face."
This White House knows that "excessive government regulation
only hinders growth."
—
NCCR Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson, commenting
in Nation's Restaurant News on the restaurant industry's
newfound ally in President Bush, October 1, 2001.
"This
is a positive development for the industry. I hear all the
time from my members that the biggest problem they face is
not being able to find enough workers, and this would certainly
be a help."
—NCCR
Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson, responding
to President Bush's support for a limited amnesty for Mexicans
living and working in the U.S., in Nation's Restaurant
News, August 13, 2001.
"I've
just read portions of it, but what I read made me realize
that it's not worth the time it takes for you guys to do a
story about it. This is a large and great industry, and I
have personal contacts with companies throughout the industry,
and this does not reflect them personally or this industry.
It's so incredibly one-sided and biased."
—NCCR
President Terrie Dort, commenting on the highly critical book
"Fast Food Nation," in Nation's Restaurant News, June
11, 2001.
"People
tell me they are drowning in a sea of government regulations,
and it's getting worse."
—NCCR
Director of Government Relations Scott Vinson, in Nation's
Restaurant News, May 21, 2001.
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