The Progressive War on Cheap Eats
Zohran Mamdani’s regulatory agenda will make dining out and ordering in costlier than ever.
Few issues matter more to voters than food costs. Nearly 90 percent of Americans report stress about grocery prices, and more than half call it a “major” source of anxiety. So it was perhaps inevitable that New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani would enter the food-affordability debate. With campaign pledges to fight “halalflation” and “make halal eight bucks again,” Mamdani has neatly folded food into the millennial brand of democratic socialism that carried him to victory in November. But his proposals—and those advanced by his allies on the city council—will mire the Big Apple in a progressive war on cheap eats. The casualties
will be the city’s dining scene and its hungry residents.
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