Here's an interesting article I found on Nations Restaurant News:
http://www.nrn.com/breakingNews.aspx?id=378588
Since we are doing health and nutrition this week, I thought this would be fitting. It talks about the push for restaurants in Delaware to be required to post nutrition information on menus. Although this is great and all who is going to enforce this? I am sure that the cost involved with hiring inspectors to make sure all restaurants are in compliance would be extremely high.The article raises an interesting point in saying that a franchise owner may incur all costs associated with this. I think if this is the case the company should help out in some way to send a positive message to franchise owner rather than leaving them high and dry. Could this also impact sales of particular food items as well? Say if a customer sees an item with a lot more calories then he or she would want would they opt for a healthier choice instead? Of course this wouldn't be the case for everyone, because some people could care less about what they are eating. But as obesity rises and the push for a healthier society this may or may not help with our growing problem.
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I can see where there is a positive and negative to this new bill. On one side, the bill will promote awareness to the consumers, giving them the chance to choose wisely about what they are ingesting into their bodies. It could also give the restaurants the chance to mabye raise the cost of the low calorie items a bit. if the people want it so badly, they will have to pay for it!
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the restaurant owners will feel the burn when they have to put in the money to make new menus, train their waitstaff and chefs, etc. And what will happen if this goes on a federal/national approach? Mom and Pop restaurants will be hurting the most because of the incurred costs that will happen. Not even to mention the fines that the restaurantuers will get if they dont do this!
To finish this, my question is this and i think Joe mentioned it as well...how can then enforce this on the consumers? there will be no way that the government will be able to monitor what the people are eating(nor should they be able to) if they want to control the obesity epidemic.