Dang, turns out my hatred of sweet potato was actually a hatred of colonialism lol

While that is true, and what i am about to say is unlikely for them to realize, but pretty much the best way for them to quickly regain favor with the consumerist sheeple that they supposedly care about buying their products would be the positive press they would get from rehiring this guy with back pay and a small pay increase. And then they quietly fire him a year from now for an unspecified reason like a layoff.

Tony stark did it in a cave. With a box of scraps.