Casey’s asks for law change, so teens can roll out pizza

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Radio Iowa: Iowa-based Casey’s General Stores — the country’s fourth-largest pizza chain — is asking the Iowa Legislature to let 16- and 17-year-olds run the machines that roll out the pizza dough. “Casey’s, like any other employer across the state of Iowa, we’re really struggling in finding employees,” Tom Cope, a lobbyist for Casey’s, said during a Senate subcommittee hearing Monday. Cope said unlike surrounding states like Illinois and Missouri, current Iowa law bars anyone under the age of 18 from operating a pizza dough rolling machine.