re: No calories on menus ( yet)

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0 calories changed per order, sure, but that doesn't mean people didn't find the information useful or helpful.

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It actually does mean that.

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It means that the people who visited the studied restaurants kept ordering about the same amount of calories; no surprise, people kept ordering what they want.

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If that is no surprise to you, then you should also agree this is a waste of time for the government to be involved in.

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What about people who used that information to go to another restaurant that had healthier/lower calorie options, or stayed at home and cooked?

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Based off the actual data, that didn't happen.

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I'll be honest, I wasn't aware that having nutrition information available was a legal requirement at this point.

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You seem to not be aware of a lot of things based on your response sin this thread.

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There are still a lot of places that don't have it and when I ask for it they can't provide it. Hell, freaking Salad Shop is one of them. A salad place.. boggles my mind.

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Is the info online?

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I gave you an emoticon because that statement was too asinine for a real response.

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That's how I felt about your statement. Pissing money away just because you can is more asinine than my reply to you was.

This isn't a political board, a car board, or a government regulation board. We're having a quasi-political discussion about something relevant to the F&D board - restaurants and whether or not the government should have them print/post their nutritional information publicly. Whether I know anything about VW, the regulations the government imposes on VW, and the government's ability to follow through with their imposed regulations on VW has no bearing on this board, this topic, nor this discussion. As such, my ignorance to that topic is currently irrelevant and your point is moot.

I'll grant you the 2nd time I said I didn't know; it is relevant to the topic that we're discussing, and it's a key point. I should have looked that up prior to discussing this, but my point remains the same. This legally required nutritional information should be publicly available information.

I like having the nutrition info at restaurants. It helps me make choices. It's also pretty eye opening.

We've had nutrition labels on grocery items for decades, and I bet few would like to see them go away.

The grocery and restaurant nutrition labels are used by 65% to 70% of wealthy or white customers, but only 40 to 55% of poor, Mexican, or black customers use them. Level of education also plays a big role. LINK

I don't favor screwing a rich, smart, white man out of his labels just because Joe or Jose Fatass doesn't choose to use them.