Bongbong Marcos Knows What's Best for Your Business

Bless this particular type of food in particular.

Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., better known as Bongbong, has just filed Senate Bill 1863, or the "Anti-Rice Wastage Act of 2013." Marcos' bill will fine your restaurant business P20,000-P100,000 for refusing to serve half-cup rice orders.

Of course, our fine and honorable Senator knows what's up. People all over are demanding for a half-cup rice with their meals. And stubborn for-profit businesses aren't budging. If only there were a mechanism that matched what businesses supply with what consumers demand. Wait, supply...and demand? Like in a market? That sounds familiar.

Well, you say. Sen. Marcos just wants to cut down on food waste. He said total wastage is roughly 308,000 tons of rice, citing the Food and Nutrition Research Institute to let you know he really knows what's up.  Given that data, it now completely make sense to force private companies to add half-cup servings to their portfolio of rice offerings. Of course, everyone eats in half-cup denominations, so it wouldn't make sense to offer one-fourth cups of rice, would it? Everyone will always finish that half-cup and each additional half-cup if needed. At least every restaurant uses standard measurements for cups and half-cups.

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Really, if only restaurants had some incentive for minimizing waste, right? Like, if they were charged for wasting rice. Like, if they were costs. If only wasted rice--or wasted anything--were considered a cost to the business, then we wouldn't need such breakthrough legislation.

I can't wait for the surge of the restaurant industry as we further penalize businesses for making business decisions. Makes you just want to donate more to Sen. Marcos' pork barrel fund.