Health Care Reform Impact on Restaurant Nutrition Labeling

Health care reform has a direct impact on nutrition information available at restaurant chains.

Nutrition Labeling of Menu Items at Restaurants

This provision requires restaurant chains (those with 20 or more outlets) to include calories on menus, menu boards (such as drive through menus), and food display tags. Additional nutrition information will have to be available and provided upon customer request, such as fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sodium, protein, and fiber. The intent is for the information to be uniform and consistent within a restaurant chain and between different restaurants to reduce confusion and make the information consistent. It doesn’t look like this will go into affect until 1 year after bill passed into law.

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Lisa Nelson RD
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