French MP’s bill aims to take a bite out of reheated restaurant food

French Socialist MP Daniel Fasquelle is pushing a bill to restrict the use of the label “restaurant” to those establishments that prepare their food from scratch.

He is taking this stance as many French restaurants don’t cook their own food; they serve up reheated industrial dishes as this method is easier to manage and more profitable.

Fasquelle says the model for his bill is a 1998 law limiting use of the word “boulangerie” to bakeries that make their own dough, which has been credited with an improvement in French bread.