Weiner roast: Fallen politician makes bid for ‘sustainable’ career with locally-sourced eatery

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Anthony Weiner has been busy since his failed mayoral campaign and shockingly not in the “getting-busy-sexting” kind of way.

Though he promised another “book of ideas” and strategies for dealing with “tea party wackadoos,” Weiner seems to have fallen into new pursuits as of late, pulling out of politics and trying his hand in the media and restaurateur games.

Weiner is a columnist for Business Insider, writing on topics like the Stanley Cup, insulting Republicans, and supporting the taxi lobby against Uber. He also has written several op-eds for the New York Daily News on similar topics. One of them is even titled, “All Hail Government Regulation.”

He is also a “WiseGuy” on a New York City television show called “Inside City Hall.”

But his latest career move to potential restaurateur is the one that has everyone talking these days. (And the reason for an all new onslaught of online weiner jokes!)

Weiner is associated with a new non-profit called the Rockaway Restoration Kitchen.

On Idealist.org the organization is described as  “a social entrepreneurship that operates a healthy, sustainable restaurant in a hard luck community to provide training, on-the-job apprenticeship and placement in the culinary and food service sector for unemployed New Yorkers.”

The goal is to operate a restaurant with “locally sourced food that satisfies the hunger of Rockaway residents, attracts visitors and serves up dignity and self-sufficiency by serving as a hands-on training ground to provide skills, real experience and job placement in the culinary industry,” the Rockaway Times reports.

Oh, and in addition to all of that, Weiner spends some of his time favoriting tweets and articles about sexting. Old habits die hard.