Larry Bain, a leading San Francisco restaurateur, is an outspoken advocate for social responsibility in the restaurant industry. He served on Mayor Newsome’s transition team and on the San Francisco’s interagency task force on healthy food procurement. Larry’s partnered with Traci Des Jardins to make Jardinière, then Acme Chophouse and Mijita Cocina Mexicana exemplary conscious enterprises, models for a “new capitalism” where the product and process add to the environment, the community and educate the public on sustainable and just food systems.