Last year, New York law makers passed legislation requiring restaurants to post nutritional information on menu boards; and more restaurants, counties and states are following suit! Gov. Schwartzenegger just signed a law in CA, requiring chain restaurants with more than 20 locations to post calorie information next to the items listed on indoor menus.
Going one step further, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Long John Silver's, are among restaurants that will begin posting calorie information on their indoor menu boards nationwide. Yum Brands, the parent company of the restaurants listed above, has stated that all of their restaurants will have informational menus in place between now and January 1, 2011. Because of space constraints, calorie information won't be posted on drive thu menus; but will be made available to customers if who request it.
Even though many of us inherently know which foods may or may not be the best choices from a nutritional perspective; when the information is right in front of us, it's a little easier to keep our will power in check. I think the info will be helpful particularly when we're undecided as what we want to order, or, if we go out to eat and are trying to watch how much we consume, we'll no longer have to look up the info online ahead of time, or ask for the information (unless we go through the drive thru), or have to go to the side of the restaurant to read the nutritional charts with teeny tiny print.
Not that we'll always use the information in our decision making, or that it will be important to everyone; but I think that information is power, and I like that there are restaurants and leaders stepping up to help us make healthier choices.
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