This week, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed California’s law regarding humane treatment of hogs and their right to apply those standards to pork produced in the state as well as products from out of state. We’ll discuss the implications to the marketplace for operators.

And the city of Chicago gets a new mayor and city council this week and the restaurant industry plays heavily into the new mayor's agenda starting off with elimination of the tip credit among other items. We’ll take a look at that.

And our old friend Jeff Hanscom, Vice-President of State & Local Government Relations at the International Franchise Association, stops by the pod to get us up to speed on that onerous joint employer liability bill slowly working its way through the California legislature. It’s always a good conversation when Jeff’s on the pod.

We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.