How Many Calories Are In Your Food?
January 8, 2010 by Food Dude
Filed under News/Discussion
KGW.com has some interesting food news this week. Burgerville has launched a program designed to let diners know exactly how many calories fat, and carbs are in the food. So far the health information is only available in one store, but they have plans to roll it out to all stores. You can see the KGW.com video about the program here.
In another story, restaurant food has more calories than advertised. Shocking!
The food at many popular chain restaurants and in the freezer section of the supermarket may contain a lot more calories than advertised.
A study of 10 chain restaurants, including Wendy’s and Ruby Tuesday, found that the number of calories in 29 meals or other menu items was an average of 18 percent higher than listed.
Why am I not surprised?
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Who eats at those places?!
Is Burgerville getting credit for being proactive? Or are they just doing early what everyone’s going to have to do?
I was under the impression Multnomah County was soon requiring calorie counts on menus.
You are correct, however, no one else is actually printing it on your receipt.
Life is common sense….for some people. Others need to have it spelled out.
Ohboy! Headless Fatty photo!.
Looks more to me like a headless preggers photo, but what do I know?
Didn’t some of the customers just need to look down to see they were being lied to?!?! I’m no hypocrite I’m a little over weight myself but I’m not blaming calorie counts by restaurants for my bulge.
I don’t think that’s the point.
If I buy a Mustang and drive it 135mph into a bridge abutment, should ford have to put a warning sticker on the dash that says that that is a bad idea?
This Idea that businesses should have to go through the expense and hassle to do what we all should be doing for ourselves is maddening! People, Just because someone is willing to sell something to you doesn’t make it perfectly health. You do not have to eat all the food. You do not have to order the SuperJumboChiliCheeseFries w/extra guacamolito sauce! put down the fork, get out of the drive-thru, put on some running shoes, and stop shifting (your own)personal responsibility onto everyone else.
I own 2 Taco Del Mar’s and we’ve recently made up a printable calorie counting sheet. It allows a customer to easily add up the calories in the item they ordered. We aren’t required to do this, yet, but I’m glad to have it on hand as I could use some help counting my own calories.