The vote isn’t until this afternoon, but the Multnomah County Board looks like it’s going to pass a new rule that will make dieting a lot easier. If the votes add up, any restaurant with 15 or more locations will have to list nutritional facts right on the menu. Calories and fat grams will be staring at you right alongside your Monster Burger with cheese.
While this is great news for waist-watchers who have been forced to research their meals online or prowl for those folded charts stashed next to job applications, there are also morsels of good for the non-nutritonally-focused. The new program doesn’t cost a dime to implement. Restaurant inspectors already check each spot in town so this is just one more line on the sheet. And, according to those on the board, restaurants of this size tend to change menus about every nine months anyway (there’s a six month grace period and plans have been in the works for over a year) so no one has to rush out and buy all new menus.
(Info thanks to KXL)
