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menu labeling
Does Posting Calorie Counts On Menus Sway Consumers?
Starting last year, fast food restaurants in New York City were required to list the total calories of every item on the menu. The idea was to provide greater transparency for consumers so that they can make smarter choices. Has it worked? Professors at New York University and Yale have completed a study that shows that the labeling makes consumers think they're being healthier, but in fact they're ordering more total calories than before the law went into effect. More » -
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Consumerist's Ultimate Fast Food Nutrition Guide: 2008
Back in January of 2007, we took a look at fast food and chain restaurant websites to see who was hiding their nutritional information and who was making it easy for consumers to find out what was in their favorite menu items. We found that some chains were offering a veritable buffet of information, while others either ignored the subject altogether or hid links to PDFs in the depths of their fine print. Because of this, inside, we've got a nutritional info report card of about 50 top fast food joints. We tell you whether they have the info online at all, provide nutritional info for all items, if it's easy to locate, and whether they have allergen info. We also give an overall rating to the overall quality of the nutritional info, and provide direct links to the nutrition page or PDF. More »
8:32 AM on Wed May 28 2008
By Meg Marco
21,230 views, 41 commentsLatest by RosanneAhriman: Chick-fil-a adds msg to their nuggets and as an extra ingredient in their chicken salad. I just ate there and more »
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menugate
McDonald's CEO Calls Customers Who Want Calories On Menu Boards "CAVE People"
If you'd like fast food and chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus and menu boards, Jim Skinner, the CEO of McDonald's thinks you're a "naysayer" and a "CAVE person," — meaning Citizens Against Virtually Everything, says theChicago Tribune. More » -
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Blimpie, Please Put Your Nutritional Info Back Online
The new caloric information law in New York City has begun to show itself in restaurants—yesterday we decided against a fudge brownie at Starbucks because it was over 400 calories. A reader named Spoon wrote in to let us know that Blimpie, however, still hasn't bothered to put its nutritional information back on its website. They took it down last summer in a failed attempt to skirt the NYC law before it was rewritten. Now, ten months later, they're still keeping consumers in the dark and incorrectly blaming it on New York City. More » -
menugate
Poll: Consumers Aren't Very Good At Estimating Calorie Content
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the American Heart Association recently conducted a scientific poll (unlike the completely unscientific one above) in which they asked a sampling of consumers to tell them which menu items had the fewest calories. The results? Consumers had no clue. One of the poll questions is reproduced above. If you like, you can take a guess and then head inside for the answer. (Peaking is easy, but in poor taste.) More » -
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Judge: Calories To Be Posted On Fast Food Menus In NYC!
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog informs us that a federal judge has given the go ahead to NYC's new (rewritten) menu labeling law, thus ending (until the inevitable appeal) a fierce and sometimes weird battle between the fast food industry and NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. More » -
menugate
San Francisco Orders Restaurants To Display Calorie Information, Industry Laughs
San Francisco passed a resolution last week requiring chain restaurants to display calorie information on their menus, but the industry couldn't care less. They will continue fattening us up like gingerbread cash-cows, regardless of whatever regulations pitiful municipalities hurl their way. More » -
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menugate
NYC To Vote On New And Improved Menu Labeling Regulation
The New York City Board of Health will vote today on a new regulation requiring calories on menu boards in New York City. The former rule was shot down by a federal judge who ruled that the regulation's criteria for determining which restaurants would be required to post calorie information on their menus was illegal. More » -
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60 Minutes Tackles The Menu Labeling Controversy
60 minutes aired a lengthy report last night on the menu labeling controversy, and all the usual suspects were in attendance. More » -
menugate
New York City Proposes New Menu Labeling Regulations
NYC just isn't giving up. They've rewritten the menu labeling regulation so that rather than making the menu rules dependent on whether or not the restaurant was already supplying nutritional information, all restaurants with more than 15 locations nationally will be required to put calorie info on the menus. This change puts them in accordance with federal law. More » -
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UPDATE: Judge Says States, Cities May Require Nutrition Labeling at Restaurants
The CSPI emailed to let us know the reason that the NYC menu labeling regulation got tossed out: More » -
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Starbucks to Downsize Drink Menu In Attempt To Speed Up Ordering Process
Starbucks is going to downsize their drink menu in order to speed up the endless Starbucks waiting experience, in which grouchy decaffeinated customers stare uncomfortably at bottles of "ethos" water while they plan how best to murder the customer ordering a coffee that takes 14 words to describe. According to the Associated Press. More » -
menugate
Wendy's Sends Scary Legal Threats Over Photoshopped Menu That Includes Calorie Info
Wendy's has sent the CSPI a scary legal threat letter over a photoshopped sample (click image for larger version) of a possible Wendy's menu board included as an exhibit in the ongoing "Menugate" lawsuit. More »
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