http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33567357

Oh yeah, that's what you really want on a trip out. This sh1t is fast becoming another way to keep the masses compliant.

its effectively impossible to do except with centralised kitchens.

Quite a few places now suggest lower calorie options eg pizza under 500kcals. Difficult to standardise and to be honest if I'm going out to eat, I'm not gonna watch my calorie intake on that day.

The gym I go to has quite a decent cafe/restaurant. As you might expect, all the food on the menu does have nutritional information (e.g. how many calories, how much fat etc) for each item. It doesn't take up all that much space on the menu and it doesn't feel like it's lecturing, just that it's giving you options - there are still 'unhealthy' options on the menu like burgers but at least you know approximately what you're getting. If you feel like something that's high in calories or whatever you can still have it.

I don't think there's any problem with giving people more information (assuming it's vaguely accurate) provided you still give them the choice. Putting information on the menu is not the same as removing things from the menu. If you actually think a menu telling you that pizza is 1200Kcalories if you eat the whole thing is somehow lecturing or brow-beating you, you have more than just waistline issues, frankly.

Jon

I'm trying to think of a chain that doesn't already display those. MaccyD, spoons, BK etc all do for example


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Why not use some common sense and self control?

+1. I'm fat, it's my fault, and I don't especially give a fcuk.

It's bad enough that women have subjected themselves to this obsession with food and everything around it for decades (it's different if there's actual problems), but we've now got blokes presenting themselves at hospitals due to similar idiocy.

You don't need much imagination to realise that you'll start getting less for more in restaurants - it's already happening in every supermarket aisle.

How is a small local pub that changes it's menu on a regular basis supposed to keep up with this without resorting to buying in chain food crap?

The story explicitly says three times that they are asking chains to do this. You may infer from this that small local pubs are not included.
Plus, this isn't a parliamentary regulation we're discussing, it's a press release from the LGA. An organisation which weilds less authority than a neigbourhood watch committee (which can at least hand out hats).

That's the point, a big chain usually has a whole, centralised department to take care of that and the meals are the same in every restaurant. But if you are running your own restaurant, you are probably not a nutritionist and cannot afford to pay one to analyse the food and work out the calorific content - and the food is fresh and not delivered in pre-portioned lots with the calories printed on the carton. That means that you then have a lot of additional work to do and your portions will often vary in size due to using fresh products not cut and packed into exact portions before use, so you'll never know accurately exactly how many calories you have for a specific dish.

They're all doing this anyway. There's not a single big chain that doesn't have the calorie count on their menu for food

And if you tested them they would be incorrect. It cannot be achieved with people making dish's in isolation. It can only be achieved with centralised production.

Chef & Brewer don't