Right now, only chain restaurants with 15 or more sites are required to do so in New York City and the West Coast states.. I say pass federal legislation making this a nationwide requirement that applies to small, independently owned establishments, food trucks and even those beloved little hole-in-the-wall restaurants. More detailed information, such as sugar and fat content, should be placed on each restaurant’s website.
Mainly, I’m curious how many calories and grams of sugar are in such local monstrosities as an Oreo Panwich; that’s 2 Oreo pancakes stuffed with Oreo cream cheese , topped with whipped cream and powdered sugar!!
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if you need to count calories, eat at home
It takes a lot of work to calculate calories from food made from scratch. Also, yeah, if you’re worried about calories and going out, stick with a dressing free salad, because even if the calories is low, the salt will always be high.
Idk if this is unpopular, but it should be an unpopular opinion
We have this in the UK for companies of more than 250 employees, which give us quite a lot of coverage. It became law and the change happened very quickly. It includes menus and online apps.
Although you obviously don’t really see e.g. independent cafes bothering with it. And really you should know how to work out the calories for a bacon sandwich.
I agree with this, mainly because at least in Canada, fast food places are required to display full nutritional information everywhere. Calories, sodium, sugar, fat, ingredient list, etc.
Why is it a double standard that restaurants do not? In most cases restaurants are actually worse for things like fat and sodium and sugar, given their goal is exclusively to make something taste good.
LOL – what, so you’d eat it if it had 1000 calories, but not if it had 1200?
Restaurants are not responsible for your lack of self-control or need to control everything around you.
It’s OBVIOUS to anyone with a brain that an Oreo Panwich is going to have more calories than someone who is watching calories should ever consider having.
Stop making other people responsible for your poor choices.
No
If you need someone to tell you that the Oreo Panwich isn’t healthy, you may need to stay home.
We have these laws where I live. There are categories of food that get a pass and everything else needs to show it (Like deli meat, produce, fresh baked good, etc). Think things you could get at a farmers market (before they hit a certain threshold of production). I think they work well and keep the population conscious about how much we’re eating (eg. I’ll know if the meal I’m ordering is 1000 calories).
In the meantime, I’m sure there’s a diet app that has a calculation for that somewhere lol.
I mean, it’s not like you’re getting the Oreo Panwich because it’s full of nutrients and protein. Who cares how much crap is in it? You go out for the experience, right? Not for healthy eating.
upvoted because this is a terrible opinion
No one who orders an Oreo Panwich is thinking about their health. I know a law would satisfy your curiosity, but that’s not a good reason for a law.
I also wanna waste a metric fuckton on administration for literally no reason
What sort of studies have you seen that this sort of labeling is effective? What are the effects of it?
So you’re volunteering to do all of this math for minimum wage, yeah?
I love that so many commenters are stuck on the Oreo example and not using critical thinking skills to know its just all food.
I wanna know when someone is marketed as healthy and its a lie
Would you be ready to pay extra for it? Calorie testing isn’t cheap, and it would be a nightmare for any good restaurant with a seasonal or frequently changing menu. You’re asking tiny places to either pay labs or build a nutrition database and that cost is going to show up on your bill. It would force some small restaurants to close.
Why try to legislate personal responsibility and offload every decision onto a label, as if people can’t use common sense. Yes the Oreo Panwich will be an abomination. But it’s also called the Oreo Panwich, which should clue in the creature who would order such a thing.