Yeah, Liu comes off as a real idiot. Take a look at the whole exchange... “The end result of our eating habits is all around us,” Basso told an incredulous Liu. “It’s an obesity epidemic that is killing the world.” “Do I want others to die at my restaurant? No. Actually I want to wake up one morning and open the door and have no one ever come in again, because maybe the world would have learned the truth,” added the owner. “Now, I make good money joking about how bad my food is. But at least I’m honest.” However, Liu wasn’t buying the sales pitch. “It’s not a joke,” the anchor shot back. “You have people actually dying from your food, John. I mean, isn’t there some responsibility here?” Basso is making one hell of a point, and he's doing it in a completely legal fashion. It's not like he's outright poisoning the food, although one could argue that the food itself is poison, and that seems to be the whole point he's trying to make. How is he any more responsible for the choices that people make then the owners of any McDonalds, Burger King, or any other greasy fast-food franchise location? Better yet, take it a step further and suppose that he refuses service to people he feels are too fat, exercising this "responsibility* that Liu believe he should have. Image the outcry, and probably lawsuits and such that would ensue. People are stupid, and are eating themselves to death. Basso is merely providing the evidence that people would otherwise deny if it wasn't so blatant.