Nutritional Info Required at Restaurants
With Americans getting larger each year one would think the idea of making it convenient for folks to find out the number of calories a dish a restuarant offers would be a no-brainer. After all, if the idea is for customers to keep coming back so they need stay health and well… alive. Ideally when on some cold afternoon a customer heads over to Starbucks for that grande-size white hot chocolate with whole milk and a dollop of whipped cream, he or she will know it uses up 520 calories (granted it is some of the best tasting calories) of their daily allotment. Would knowing the calorie amount stop me from getting the white hot chocolate once I was in the Starbucks? Probably not, but what it would do was cause me to look at other areas in my day where I can make room for the hot chocolate.
It seems restuarant owners do not trust that a public that likes a product will keep coming back for it. Instead they resist efforts to encourage them to post nutritional values of their offerings. Well New Yorkers have a regulation in the works that will encourage just that cooperation from the restaurants.
Read the article here.