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The only menus that have lists of calories on them are for chain restaurants.
While that's fine and dandy, my issue with this is that if you live in nyc(or probably most urban areas) -there are literally thousands of restaurants-no need to chain food it.
So I'd love to see some regulation for restaurants (all) have to list something, like ingredients, aprox calories, something...anything...
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I'd agree with that on ingredients. But the costs of doing calorie analysis for an entire restaurant menu can be high - it's hard to imagine regulations forcing this sort of analysis for non-chain restaurants, where the owners don't have multiple restaurants with which to spread out the analysis costs. Doing laboratory analysis once for a 50 item menu costs about $700-1200 PER ITEM...about 50,000 dollars total! That's a drop in the bucket for somewhere like Applebees, where the cost is spread across all the restaurants. But your local mom and pop? That's enough to easily put them out of business.
