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The New York City Board of Health has made the decision today that requires restaurants with more than 15 locations to list the calories information next to their items on the menus displays. This is required of the restaurants who already have their calories data made available for the public such as on their websites. This new requirement kicks in on March 31st and will be affecting 10,000 restaurants in NYC. This is obviously being done in an effort to raise more awareness about what consumers are eating and how much they are intaking when they dive into those burgers and fries but will this actually make a difference? Do you think the menus will be too cluttered with this information?
I think that it's a good idea to start listing this information. Maybe people would reconsider how many items they want to order before they order a whole list of items they want. However, I don't think that people who already frequent these restaurants regularly will cut down on their visits, perhaps just cut down their order from six dollar menu items to four items.
- Posted Jan 22, 2008 by SuDoughName | 1 Comment | Share It
- Filed under: fast food
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veggr on February 12, 2008 at 12:08:07 PM
I agree. Even though people rarely know the exact nutritional value of their food, generally when you order a double bacon cheeseburger with extra mayo, you have at least SOMEWHAT of an inclination that the food you're ingesting isn't quite the healthiest. Posting caloric information isn't going to change things, not drastically, I don't think.