After ditching his ambitions to be Mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner appears to have swapped politics for pans. The Democrat, who also resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal, has been linked to a restaurant venture to help the city's unemployed. He has been spotted apparently looking for locations for the Rockaway Restoration Kitchen, which is billing itself as a locally sourced eatery staffed by former addicts and prisoners. Career change: Anthony Weiner, pictured at a food pantry in Queens in November, has been linked to plans for a Rockaway restaurant Health drive: Weiner enjoys a Nathan's hotdog in Coney Island. The Queens restaurant he is linked to plans to bring healthy options to an area known as a 'food desert'
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Anthony Weiner believed to be involved in Rockaway Restoration Kitchen
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Queens business plans to offer healthy meals made by trainee chefs
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Although the restaurant is still in the early stages of planning, it is expected to be based in Rockaway, @placeholder, which is considered a 'food desert' when it comes to healthy places to eat.