Restaurant required to post calories on menus!!!

kmoore02
kmoore02 Posts: 167 Member
in Food and Nutrition
As part of the Affordable Care Act, restaurant chains with 20 or more locations are require to post calories on their menu and have available nutritional information available on demand.

I love this! It saves me so much time when ordering or choosing what to eat. Most of the time I go to their website or my calorie king app to look up that information. According to calorie king, a Burger King Flame-Broiled Whopper, with Cheese is 760 calories!!! WOW!

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  • issyfit
    issyfit Posts: 1,077 Member
    I always check nutritional info online before going out. Applebees has a pdf file you can download and save.
  • MermaidFaith
    MermaidFaith Posts: 495 Member
    Is this true? i think that is awesome. i do not go into places like burger king to eat usually, but when i go to panera bread i love how the calories are posted.
  • kmoore02
    kmoore02 Posts: 167 Member
    Yep its true!

    When will I see the new nutrition labeling?
    Some establishments are already posting nutrition information, but the nutrition labeling requirements won’t be finalized until FDA completes the rulemaking process—that means reviewing comments that the public submits in response to the proposed rules and issuing final regulations. FDA is hoping to issue the final rules by the end of this year and is proposing that the final rules become effective six months from the date of publication for covered restaurants and similar retail food establishments and one year from the date of publication for covered vending machines, although input on these effective dates is welcome.

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