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That toy will cost you an extra dime in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco, in its never-ending quest to be the most nanny city in the nanny state, has decided that parents aren’t doing a good enough job raising their children, so they enacted a law. If you sell a meal with X amount of calories, it cannot be marketed to children with toys. It was basically a law designed to stop the Happy Meal, but rather than stopping McDonald’s, it has simply made the franchisees more creative. San Francisco McDonald’s have gotten around the Happy Meal ban by charging 10 cents per toy.
According to Scott Rodrick, a franchisee who owns 10 of the 19 McDonald’s restaurants in San Francisco, says the dime-a-toy charge follows the letter of the law to a tee. He’s not pocketing the money himself, either; that 10 cents per toy is going to build a new Ronald McDonald House. So, an unjust law gets bypassed, kids get their toys, and charities benefit. Sounds like a win-win situation to me!
You have to wonder, though; will San Francisco McDonald’s bypassing the law cause other potential Happy Meal bans to be changed to disallow this?
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