John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

Episode 163: How Your Dinner Bill Could Help Fund Regenerative Agriculture with Anthony Myint

21 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Anthony Myint on how restaurants could fund regenerative agriculture. The U.S. restaurant industry employs 1 in 10 workers and generates more revenue than retail or agriculture combined, yet most chains haven't shifted their supply chains toward regenerative farming.

The restaurant industry is the largest part of the food economy in the US So bigger than retail, bigger than agriculture. I think it's something like 1 out of 10 workers. So just like a really, really huge sector. And yet that's interesting.
And it's, it's bigger. How bigger? You mentioned the number of people that it employs. Is it bigger in gross revenue? Is it bigger? Interesting. So people are spending more money collectively at restaurants than they are in retail?
Much more.
I did not know that.
I don't have the numbers today. But a couple years ago, it was like, you know, twice as big even, or something like, it's huge.
Wow.
So it's really big. And yet I don't believe that the restaurant industry is necessarily not yet at least fully engaged in transforming agriculture. SA.