Howard Cannon launches Violent Dining platform

Forensic scientist and restaurant-industry expert witness Howard Cannon has launched Violent Dining, a public-awareness platform tied to decades of cases involving violent crime, contamination and fatal incidents in restaurants and bars. The project pairs short-form videos with a real-time tracker as Cannon expands his public-facing work and expert witness practice.

Why it matters: - Violent Dining is aimed at families and consumers who may not see the safety and legal risks tied to restaurants and bars. - The platform frames restaurant safety as a broader public-health and consumer-protection issue, not just an industry compliance issue. - Cannon is using a public-awareness platform to surface cases and risk patterns that he says have been kept out of view.

What happened: - Howard Cannon announced the launch of Violent Dining, a new public-awareness platform at ViolentDining.com. - The launch centers on four decades of cases involving restaurants and bars. - Cannon's work has been featured on Fox News, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, ABC, Good Morning America, CBS News, The Dr. Oz Show, Inside Edition and The Travel Channel. - Cannon said the restaurant industry has become America's most dangerous industry and that the platform is intended to help protect families.

The details: - Cannon has testified on rape, murder, wrongful death, catastrophic injury and intentional contamination cases since 1987. - He has served as an expert witness in 400+ litigation cases and consulted on hundreds more. - Cannon has authored books published in 76 countries and 13 languages. - Violent Dining will feature a growing library of short-form shock-u-mentary videos designed to engage, shock, disgust, inform and educate viewers. - The platform also includes a real-time tracker of estimated U.S. restaurant-related deaths, rapes and contaminations. - The launch includes five bookable keynote presentations: Violent Dining, Eat Lunch & Die, Invisible Intoxication, Gutting the Giants and Gutted. - Four shock-u-mentary documentaries are currently in production. - Violent Dining works alongside Cannon's forensic expert witness practice, Restaurant Expert Witness, which serves attorneys nationwide. - More information is available at ViolentDining.com and RestaurantExpertWitness.com. - Media contacts listed in the release include the corporate office at (800) 300-5764, the Las Vegas office at (702) 423-0824 and Porter@RestaurantExpertWitness.com. - The release also listed Violent Dining social accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.

Between the lines: - The platform extends Cannon's courtroom and consulting work into a direct-to-public media product. - The combination of video storytelling and incident tracking suggests a strategy built to make abstract risk feel immediate and measurable. - The branding leans heavily on shock value, which may help attention and sharing but also signals a confrontational posture toward the restaurant industry.

What's next: - Violent Dining will continue adding short-form videos to its library. - The four documentaries in production are expected to expand the platform's reach. - The keynote presentations give Cannon another way to package the platform for speaking engagements and events. - The tracker and new content could become the core of the platform's public-facing growth.