So the governor, amid his vetoing of state legislation (including a badly needed fee on shipping containers that I hope to have the chance to write about) allowed a chain restaurant nutrional labelling bill by state reps. Padilla and Mignon to become law. By 2011, chains with 20 or more locations in CA will have to provide nutritional labelling on menus.
Schwarzenegger announced his support for the bill at a ‘news conference outside of a Chili’s restaurant.’ Amused by the image of the governator @ chilis – what must have been a reunion of market-tested blandness in the fields of achievement in motion pictures, politics and food, I looked up nutritional info on Chili’s website (where, one assumes, it will continue to lurk until dragged out into the light of day in 2011). Though I’m not a dietitian, a few words of advise: if you order the Texas Cheese Fries w/ Jalapeño-Ranch Dressing as a starter, the Smokehouse Bacon Triple-The-Cheese Big Mouth Burger®
w/ a side of Jalapeño-Ranch Dressing as an entree, a slice of Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie® w/ Vanilla Ice Cream for dessert and wash it down with water (cause they don’t provide data on their drinks), you’ll be engulfing 5,710 calories in one sitting.
Flippancy aside, giving people information on what they’re ordering an restaurants is a good step forward to influencing people’s dietary choices. Combined with changes to the physical food retail environment – making sure there are healthy food stores and restaurants where people live, especially low income areas, so folks have real choice not the illusory choice of one fast food brand vs. another; improving nutrition education and school food so kids are growing up tasting healthier options; and boosting income so everyone can afford fresh, healthy food, hopefully menues with nutritional info will help people think about what they’re eating.
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Tags: food environment, nutrition
October 1, 2008 at 8:50 pm |
[...] nutritionhelp wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSo the governor, amid his vetoing of state legislation (including a badly needed fee on shipping containers that I hope to have the chance to write about) allowed a chain restaurant nutrional labelling bill by state reps. Padilla and Mignon to become law. By 2011, chains with 20 or more locations in CA will have to provide nutritional labelling on menus. Schwarzenegger announced his support for the bill at a ‘news conference outside of a Chili’s restaurant.’ Amused by the image of the governator @ chilis – what must have been a reunion of market-tested blandness in the fields of achievement in motion pictures, politics and food, I looked up nutritional info on Chili’s website (where, one assumes, it will continue to lurk until dragged out into the light of day in 2011). Though I’m not a dietitian, a few words of advise: if you order the Texas Cheese Fries w/ […] [...]
October 3, 2008 at 1:41 am |
This completed nutritional plan provides men over 40 with a convenient way to achieve their daily nutritional goals. Nutritional Menus
October 15, 2008 at 10:14 pm |
[...] I mentioned in my earlier post on menus, the governor vetoed a bill that would have placed a $20 per container fee on shipping containers [...]
December 3, 2008 at 10:45 pm |
[...] establishments to come) is to let customers know what the heck is in the food that they buy. I’ve already written a somewhat snarky blog post about the new California law that chain restaurants with 20 or more locations in the state must [...]
February 3, 2009 at 6:57 pm |
[...] would seem consistent with my sense of how nutrition labeling in restaurants can work. Part of the usefulness is creating distinctions between healthier and less healthy items, [...]
June 16, 2009 at 10:41 pm |
[...] draft bill would also follow California in requiring chain restaurants with more than 20 locations to display nutrition [...]