Filed under: Food and Nutrition , Diet and Weight Loss Most chain restaurants — except a few like Applebee’s — provide nutritional information on websites or via pamphlets and posters at point-of-sale. But who actually requests the nitty-gritty nutritional details from a server or a fast-food cashier? You’re starving, and they’re rushing to take your order and upsell an appetizer or biggie fries. Common sense tells me hardly anyone asks, and now there’s proof. A new observational study found only 0.1 percent of fast-food patrons — that’s six out of 4,311 observed — accessed on-premise nutritional information before placing their orders. Why is point-of-sale

nutritional information available in an ask-only format, when consumers won’t ask? Since most of us won’t verbally inquire, a readable “1,500 calories, 35 grams of fat” aside that double cheeseburger combo meal with fries and drink is not only better, it may be just the stare-in-the-face you need to prompt a better choice. Like the required weigh-in upon entering a Weight Watchers meeting, I need the nutritional lowdown in bright lights. When will the fast food/chain nation follow NYC and Philly’s lead to mandate calorie posting on menus? Health | Health | Health | Health

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Should Calories Be On Menus Everywhere?