Mayor Gavin Newsom will veto the city's ban on most McDonald's Happy Meals with toys on Friday.The mayor has scheduled an event at Fairmount Elementary School at 2:45 p.m. ET, where he will also release a report outlining the city's efforts to combat childhood obesity, his office said.The San Francisco, California, Board of Supervisors approved the ban on Tuesday. The ordinance requires McDonald's and other fast-food servings with toys to meet new nutritional standards. Newsom had indicated he would veto the law. That veto would be meaningless because the board approved the ordinance 8-3, a veto-proof margin. With eight votes, the board could override the veto.
The new law, which San Francisco officials hope other cities will adopt in battling a child obesity epidemic, was a defeat for McDonald's, which led the fight against the measure.
