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Simple solution. List the calories of a slice of plain pizza and then the calories of each of the possible toppings. Customers can do their own math.

So if slice of plain pizza is 270 calories and I order it with mushrooms (30) and sausage (110), then I get 410 calories for that slice of pizza.

Multiply that by my usual 8 slices and you get 3280 calories.

Math is fun!

How did we end up like this? Pizza began as a highly nutritious and delicious concoction in the Italian town of Gaeta in A.D. 997, over a thousand years ago. It offered carbs and protein and the health benefits of the tomato in measured amounts and was very safe to eat being cooked in a high heat oven. Now it is treated like poison. Funny how it is dishes like collard greens cooked in bacon fat and pig’s feet aren’t subjected to the same disclosure requirements.

Simple solution. List the calories of a slice of plain pizza

If it were only that simple. I haven’t read the reg, but because it refers to ‘nutritional information’, it likely requires grams of sodium, grams of fat, percent of daily recommended amount, etc. i.e.. all of the fine print you read on a can of food. That’s why the sign has to be so large. I’m sure there’s minimum required font size, and there must be some provision for the blind/partially sighted, etc. And, aa a bonus every time an ingredient was changed, added or sourced from a different supplier, the sign would have to be updated. But it’s all for your own good, comrades.

Simple solution. List the calories of a slice of plain pizza and then the calories of each of the possible toppings. Customers can do their own math.

Your "simplicity" misses a golden opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a liberal/RINO corporatist economy. First, the large pizza companies should band together to push for even more onerous regulations. While it will cost them, it will cost their smaller competitors even more, due to the economies of scale. Over time, they can increase the regulatory requirements, thus creating barriers to entry that are impossible to overcome. Having done that, they can begin the process of predatory pricing and, if all goes well, targeted tax relief and subsidies.

The net result: massive profits for the remaining pizza companies. Full employment in NOVA, due to the large scale lobbying effort. Tremendous windfalls for cooperative politicians. And, the NY Times can wax eloquently about how children were saved in the process, as the evil pizza barons were brought to heel, all in the name of science (but as the result of pseudo-science, but who cares?).

The only losers will be the middle-class pizza consumers, who see less choice, and higher prices. Which, from the vantage point of NYC and DC, makes it a winner all around.