The Healthy Restaurants Program aims to bring more food choices to the county, but funding for the program was not secured.
Healthy Restaurants Programrequire offering a menu with at least 40 percent healthy food options and one or more plant-based meals. As an incentive, participating restaurants will receive zero-interest loans from the Economic Development Corporation and financial help from the county to pay for menus labeling healthy food options, along with other perks.
But funding for the program was not secured, leaving implementation of the plan in question. The bill’s lead sponsor, council vice chair and District 6 council member Wala Blegay , requested $250,000 from the county’s budget to fund the program, but Alsobrooks denied that ask.
the program’s sustainability, likelihood of success and lack of specificity, mirroring some of Alsobrooks’s concerns. Blegay said she was disappointed that Alsobrooks did not approve funding for the program during this year’s budget season, but said that passing the bill is an important investment in the county. She added that the bill was a matter of changing the perception about what residents of Prince George’s want and diversifying options for a county whose population is majority non-White.
“We do not want to just eat greasy chicken,” she said, pointing to the number of fast-food chains and unhealthy takeout restaurants throughout the county. “We want the salads. We want the smoothies. We want the healthy, creative, plant-based meals. We eat them, and that there’s a market for them.
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