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Just about anything you can think of is available on demand these days. massages, dog walkers, house rentals, and of course a car to take you anywhere you need to go at a moment's notice. and if uber proves anything, it's that consumers like getting what they want when they want it. and that's a revolution air idea for the $400 billion home services category. >> online booking is going to be the future of home services. it's happened already in other categories. this is where consumer preference is going. >> so how does an industry made up of millions of independent small businesses like plumb...

Them. for example, a jack-in-the-box, hamburger from 2009-2013, the sodium level went up 26%. kfc, the grilled drumstick, salt level went up 45% over the 4 years. sonic tater tots up 84% in sodium levels. we asked the restaurant industry what's going on here. across our highly diverse industry, restaurants and actively engaged in efforts to provide consumers with lower sodium options, efforts to lower sodium are impacted by consumer preference and limited technology. or put it this way, people like salty foods so some restaurant are going to continue to salty food. increases in sodium levels p...

And sonic tater to the, salt went up 84%. >> i like the sonic tater tots. they are really tasty. >> i'm glad you are honest about this. >> nevertheless, the restaurants are supposed to be cutting them. how can they go in the other direction? >> i think there are too many john bermans out there. that's what it comes down to. people like this stuff. i'm going to show you the response we got from the national restaurant association. they said across our diverse industry, restaurant are actively engage in efforts to provide consumers with lower sodium options, efforts to lower sodium are impacted ...

As able, but from a low-income family. that's a disparity that is cleatly unfair. it is completely inconsistent with the american dream and hopes we have for everybody in our society to be all that they can be. the internet has to be used by interior entrepreneurs to find children of unique ability and teach them individually and give them the maximum opportunity to take advantage of those abilities. that same capability that the internet mermts to identify consumer preference can be used to identify the likelihood to achieve an educational topic. >> so your idea seems to be unleash the innova...

Only that it also tells you something very responsible about many people that we don't think about in terms of low-income people in terms of what they want to spend their money on when they have availability to do it. >> i think one of the arguments, i mean, one of the ways in which big food has pushed back against -- some of the stuff going on in attempts to change the landscape, the policy landscape, the economic landscape for healthier food is this idea of consumer preference, right, that essentially this is telling people what they should and shouldn't eat, it's getting -- here is the anti...