Will Calories on the Menu Change Your Eating Habits?

[konamouse]

First New York City passed a law requiring fast food places to post calories of their foods on the menu....then it was amended to include ANY chain restaurants with 15 or more locations.
Most of these places have had nutrition information available in pamphlets for years, and subsequently posted online. For example:
Blimpie
McDonald's
Panda

Comments

[octoberdreaming]

I LOVE that places are putting calories on the menus. It helps SO MUCH. Some restaurants in Houston are starting to do this, and it is good.

I will never eat a dessert in a restaurant again, unless I have three other people sharing it with me. And even then...

[brianenigma]

That totally rocks! It's the weird sort of hippie-health thing I'd expect from Portland, not New York. I hope someone proposes and passes a similar rule here.

[thunderclap8]

once I saw the calories and fat info for a Chick-fil-a milkshake, I vowed never to get one again. I mean I know all fast food shakes are terrible, but theirs is especially so - 810 calories and 33 grams of fat each!

[aliendial]

When they put calorie labels on red wine . . .

[vortech]

"The law was then revised to apply to all chain restaurants with 15 or more outlets nationwide."
Well, that sounds like a good way to make sure that all chain restaurants serve sysco homogenized crap instead of local (and nutritionally variable) ingredients.

Still, though, the half your RDA muffin reaction was funny.