Thursday, April 24, 2008
Food & Life Enforcement of controversial NY restaurant law delayed
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Whew! There's still time to eat in chain restaurants in New York without the guilty knowledge of the number of calories you're consuming.
In a case that is being nervously watched by restaurants everywhere, a federal appeals court judge delayed enforcement of city rules that require some restaurants to post calorie content on their menus. The delay is temporary, pending oral arguments before the appeals court on Tuesday.
The New York Times reports:
Under the rules, which the city’s health department revised after Judge Richard J. Holwell struck down an earlier version last fall, any chain with at least 15 outlets nationwide would have to display calorie counts on menu boards, menus or food tags. The rules would apply to roughly 2,000 restaurants, or about 10 percent of the 23,000 in the city, the health department said.Some chain-restaurant outlets, among them Starbucks, Subway, Quiznos and Chipotle, have already posted calorie counts (startling some customers.)
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