How to make local government work for you and the industry

Someday Bar NYC's Megan Rickerson discusses getting involved in hospitality advocacy, including the challenges and how to get started.

Highlights:
• Government is intimidating, daunting, complicated, and frustrating.
• It's uniquely hard to advocate for hospitality because of how broad it is, because politicians often don'e have any experience with it, and because it's in the service industry's nature to be people pleasers—after all, that's what they get paid for.
• Tips for getting involved: the squeaky wheel really does get the attention, so be loud and keep it up; taking the first step is the hardest—after that you're moving downhill; don't feel like you're putting your representatives out by asking them to advocate for you—that's their job.

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