[4][better source needed] Silva founded the Muscle Maker Grill restaurant in 1995 to provide healthy alternatives to fast food.
[8] Silva appeared on an episode of the reality television series Undercover Boss in January 2016, in which American Restaurant Holdings chairman Tim Betts posed as a new employee of Muscle Maker Grill.
[9] A resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, Silva filed a statement of candidacy for President of the United States on October 20, 2015.
[1] According to his campaign website, his platform "will be heavily focused on first addressing serious issues taking place at home here in America, like the increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, cholesterol and other health-related complications – all resulting from poor eating choices.
[11][12] His vice presidential running mate was his brother Richard Silva, a doctor from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.