You kind of answered it yourself, restaurant owners have lobbyists and can donate big to political candidates/movements. The Papa John's pizza founder was pre

You kind of answered it yourself, restaurant owners have lobbyists and can donate big to political candidates/movements. The Papa John's pizza founder was pretty notable in the last election cycle and the Domino's pizza founder was pretty big money guy behind the scenes last time I looked. Employees at restaurants won't have lobbyists unless they are unionized.