As part of the health care bill, large restaurant chains will be required to display calorie information right on their menus and drive-through displays. I know when I go to a restaurant I ask for the “nutrition menu” just so I can select the item that has a lot of calories… I mean if I’m paying ~$15-20 to go out to eat, I want more than 600 calories, you know?
I work at Romano’s Macaroni Grill part time and our dishes vary hugely in their amount of calories. Some are as little as 500 calories, some are over 1500 calories, usually with little price difference.
It will be much more convenient to have the calories listed right in the normal menu rather than having to hunt down a nutrition menu or just guess how many calories I’m eating. Some restaurants don’t even have nutrition menu’s which makes calorie counting very aggravating!
Everyone who counts calories should be in favor of this right?
One of the dishes at the Macaroni Grill, the “Parmigiana Crusted Sole” has 1700 calories in it, and its not very filling… Its a mid-priced dish too. I wonder how it will effect consumer behavior / the amount of people that order it once they see they are consuming 85% of their daily calories in one sitting!
