{"id":4620,"date":"2009-11-10T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2009-12-01T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:00:59","slug":"menu-posted-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/11\/10\/menu-posted-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Calories Posted on Menu &#8211; Make any difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/11\/10\/menu-posted-calories\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4621\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"obesity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obesity.jpg\" alt=\"obesity\" width=\"174\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obesity.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obesity-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago, a small study indicated that posting the calories on menus had not impacted ordering decisions in NYC.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 More recently, city health officials have revealed that there has, in fact, been a difference in the menu selection since the calorie-labeling law went into effect.\u00c2\u00a0 Many people claim that they aren&#8217;t paying attention to the numbers but at 4 chain restaurants, Au Bon Pain, KFC, McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Starbucks, fewer calories were ordered.<\/p>\n<p><strong> What does this mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think its a good sign that many people want to reduce their caloric intake but don&#8217;t know how.\u00c2\u00a0 By giving them this information, they can make an informed decision.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems like a simple, inexpensive step for restaurants to take to help fight obesity.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it affects their profits because people are already in the store and going to order.\u00c2\u00a0 So this means the only bottom line affected is ours, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"menu posted calories obesity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/health\/03nutrition.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">How Posted Calories Affect Food Orders &#8211; NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health and Fitness tips and videos at <a title=\"health and fitness \" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\">WithAmyMac.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a small study indicated that posting the calories on menus had not impacted ordering decisions in NYC.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 More recently, city health officials have revealed that there has, in fact, been a difference in the menu selection since the calorie-labeling law went into effect.\u00c2\u00a0 Many people claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,73,23,9,43,8,93,680,681,684,683,682,41,21],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-calories","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-food","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-labeling-law","tag-nyc-menus","tag-obesity-laws","tag-obesity-rate","tag-reduce-calories","tag-weightloss","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}