UK Government asking fast-food/restaurants to display nutiri

I wish more places in the US would do this too. I have to ask for nutritional info, and not everywhere even has it! (Especially small, local chains, but even some larger. Their excuse is "it's made my the chefs so always a little different" ... argh!)

My top kudos goes to Panera (St. Louis Bread company) who already does this! It certainly has effected my choices on more than one occasion!! I think it's a fantastic thing - I can completely understand the fears of the fast food places that people won't eat there anymore - frankly, I think just the same will eat there, but make better choices and frankly, those better choices are almost always higher in price (and probably in margin) so it might end up being a good thing for them. And those that just "need" that big mac and extra large fries aren't going to be swayed by the calories.

Now the restaurant I get all pissy at is TGIFriday's - they give you the "here's the choices under 800 calories" but won't tell you how many calories are in each. I don't know about you - but an 800 calorie dish is a lot different to me then a 400 calorie dish!! I've entered components of a few of there dishes and it does seem to be this big of a range. I don't know why they just won't publish the dang calorie count!!

I was dumbstruck to see some chains said no to this !

I think the food industry should team up with MFP

It's great news
I recently signed a petition on line for info to be a legal requirement in the UK on all foods from any kind of eatery
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I think it is fantastic that some of the major fast food company's and resturants are taking part, Some of these companys have all the nutritional information on there websites but it is giving everyone the information upfront and giving them the option to make an informed decision, I am sure there are many people who will look and ignore, there will be a lot of people that are not aware of each items calorific content and I am sure will be shocked, It stated on the news this morning that a milkshake, medium fries and a burger would use up half of your daily calorie allowance,in fact to put in the terms of calories alone I have been on MFP now for 9 months and only eat 1200 calories a day so I would use ALL my daily allowance in one meal!
Considering that this is optional and will effect there business on some scale I am very pleased that they are considering peoples health.

I think people should write to the restaurants they like and let them know they are upset that they don't provide nutrition info. I love Texas Roadhouse but I wrote them and told them I don't plan to eat there if they aren't going to issue nutrition info. I don't think it would affect people eating in these restaurants...we all know that the majority of the population is not concerned with the calorie count etc. So those people are going to continue eating there. It would just open it up so that those of us who do care would be more comfortable making choices there. However, having said that even if they do provide the information we still have to be cautious when eating out. The cooks/chefs can add/change things at their discretion. I had it happen to me at Bob Evans recently and posted about it here. I got a "fit from the farm" pasta dish and it came literally swimming in what appeared to be butter. I had gotten this several times before so knew it shouldn't have looked that way...found out the cook had added butter so the pasta wouldn't stick together...duh...a low cal dish!

A lot of places in the UK do provide the information but you have to ask for it or search on their web pages - Places like The Harvester are amazing for it. You can plan your mean ahead of time with an App as well. Just need to get more places on board. Its illegal not to provide the ingredients list, why not follow suit with the nutritional info too?!
Heading over to sign that there petition!