Calorie Watching in New York Restaurants? Lobby Gets Judge to Delay Enforcement of New Regulation

Note from Connie: Very interesting goings on in New York. If you're hoping to get the scoop on how many calories are in those foods you're eating, it may not necessarily happen. Read Jennifer's update.

A federal judge granted the New York State Restaurant Association's request to temporarily delay enforcement of New York's regulation requiring restaurants with at least 15 outlets nationwide to put calorie counts on menus, James Barron of The New York Times updates us.

Regardless of the restaurant lobby's stalling tactics, some chains already inform their customers about the calorie counts of their food, including Subway and Starbucks.

Jennifer Moore for SUGAR SHOCK! Blog

Comments

[wellsphere]

Thanks for bringing up this issue. It’s amazing how hard restaurant chains are fighting to hide their nutrition information. I wanted to share a new service my company just launched called ‘Wellternatives’ that lets people find nutrition info for thousands of chain restaurants for free –right from their cell phone or on the web. It also makes recommendations for a healthier alternative, hence the name… Wellternatives. If restaurants aren’t going to post their nutrition info, we figured we’d do what we could to give people instant access to the info from anywhere. Would love to hear what you think of it! Maija

[Jj]

Calorie counts are great on menus, but one things that concerns me is that ultimately the consumer pays for the added work in higher fees. I used to carry a pocket calorie-counter book and that helped a lot. But you don't always know what ingredients a restaurant is using specifically. Kind of a catch-22; nice to know but do we want the higher prices for it? Maybe it's worth it? As you can see I'm still not sure...lol. Great post!