McDonalds New Item:

I have never eaten anything from McDonalds in my life. The smell as you walk past one makes me feel nauseous.

HOLY CRAP! Are you from this planet??? (No disrespect intended, I've just never heard of anyone who's never been to McDonalds!)
And the smell?!?!? Is awesome! I'm almost convinced if I couldn't smell, I'd probably never eat fast food again, but it ALL smells great to me.
Guess I know how I got here, huh? LOL

Where I am in the UK, the calories, fact content etc are on the packaging. It has helped me, I am sure many people did not realise how many calories are in their food so it might make a difference to a few people, but you will always get those that think to themselves that it is not a big deal and eat them anyway. I used to have a large sized portion meal, with fries and coke, now I have a smaller burger without cheese, salad and diet soda (if I crave McDonalds.) so I can personally say that it made a huge difference to me.

the calories have been listed on the packaging for a while now.

doesn't deter people at all.

ill stick to my 400 cal 4 carb 4 patty burgers from mcds ;D

Required to do this in many states already including my state of California. McD's can tinker with the menu all they want but the majority of the items are bad for you. Even when they deceptively tell you its lower in calories the item still contains a heavy amount of sodium.

McDonald's. I'm hatin' it.

I would totally eat that new Egg White Delight with the wheat muffin, egg whites, and white cheddar. Hell yes I would.

McDonald's is some nasty Shizzle Nits of a choice to eat...

McDonald's actually tastes better when throwing it up...just sayin'....

I'm happy I was never a fan of the Big Mac. Whats with that weird extra bun in the middle? I'd rather hit the QPC

I've eaten mcdonalds in USA, Canada, Austria, London, Australia
It was all glorious

Lucky!!! Jealous.

Required to do this in many states already including my state of California. McD's can tinker with the menu all they want but the majority of the items are bad for you. Even when they deceptively tell you its lower in calories the item still contains a heavy amount of sodium.

McDonald's. I'm hatin' it.

The sodium is why I avoid food from these chain restaurants. Even if I can find something on the menu that is lower calorie the sodium content is alway through the roof.

I love the "We want to voluntarily do this" when they have been actively resisting it for 10 years....... hahahahahaha....

I so wish that every restaurant/eatery listed the nutritional information - including serving size - on all menus!

Same here. It would make it MUCH easier to pick and choose things when going out to eat. Instead of just saying **** it or sticking to a salad.

I actually think this WOULD make a difference for me. I used to get McDonald's salads all the time during my 12-hour work shift with no break for lunch (I was a nanny and always in a huge hurry). If you don't use the dressing, get grilled chicken, and remove the cheese, it's not that bad.

I don't go to McDonald's that often, but my bf loves fast food (and he's naturally SKELETAL-- 6'1" and only weighs about 140, eats everything he wants), so I go with him often and end up getting something. There are healthIER options at every fast food place, or at least low-calorie options, and not having to look those up on my slow phone would be nice.

I so wish that every restaurant/eatery listed the nutritional information - including serving size - on all menus!

My opinion; it helps. Only because when I am out on the run and do grab something fast I can rely more on what the menu and calorie counts will tell me than my own uneducated estimate. Also, I'm more likely to dine somewhere that has the calorie information available on their menu items than somewhere that doesn't.

Hope that makes sense.

Every single restaurant should have to do this, no matter the size.

It's too expensive. That would put smaller restaurants out of business.

And the government should not force these stupid restrictions on businesses. If you don't want the food because you don't know how many calories are in it, just don't eat there.

I'd think people not eating at a resturaunt because they don't know the calories will cost just as much as relaminating menus after including nutrition information or changing signs..Mcdonalds is the only place in my town that actually has nutrition values either online or in the store...if I didn't eat places that dont openly offer that info, no resturant in town would have my business.

the cost has nothing to do with making new menus.

and there's no reason you can't approximate the calories in a meal by simply looking at it and doing a little inputting.

Certainly doesn't make a difference in Aus and the details have been on the packs for years INCLUDING a general % of what this is in your daily intake. People have always known it's not an everyday food but just don't care.
Pretty much every chain here has the details up and it hasn't ever made a difference in their queues.

There was a show earlier in the year where 10 people were picked to follow each maccas main menu ingredient from the farm to the table to show that they make things from real food here. So people actually think that it's the same food they make at home so it's ok.
I believe australia has some of the highest food treatment standards in the world so people can be scared off by things they hear from overseas so it makes them go into HOLY CRUD mode and start advertising.
For example no chain restaurant over here uses pink slime. Not allowed to. I can't say for cheaper supermarket alternatives, particularly ones made overseas. We also don't use those horrid chemicals like ammonia to bacteria treat our meat.

I can say that McDonald's here in the last 10 years tastes VERY different from when it first came out about 25 years ago and everything was in Styrofoam packets and they used powdered eggs.