Will we be forced to read this BS too? Do we have to take quizzes when we walk into the door?
Thanks Barama, BOY POTUS. He would have government regulate our caloric intake if he could get away with it. This law will ease us into that era. Hooray for government control of everything! Utopia, here we come!
My husband is really conflicted about this. He is very opposed to government regulation of this type but, on the other hand, he designs equipment used, among other applications, to analyze food to determine nutrition and caloric content. So what is bad for the country is, at least temporarily, good for his company’s bottom line. Many of the crazy environmental regs pose the same conflict for him, by the way.
If I was Davanni’s, I would be closing down two locations tomorrow.
(Now if you’re Pizza Hut, you’re just SOL).
A book 38" thick.
Estimate of how much paperwork the new Obamacare calorie publication mandate would require:
The following example is for build-your-own pizzas only. Please forgive any mistakes as my permutation & combination theory may be a little rusty.
Types of pizzas:
crust types: 2
sizes: 3
different topping items (from web site): 21 (20 toppings plus plain)
Total of all combinations of size, crust & toppings: 12,582,906
To publish the calorie count of each of the possible pizzas you could use telephone book style printing (similar size font, 1 pizza per line, two columns, double sided):
total pages required: 28,598
number of pages/inch typical phone book: 750
thickness of calorie count publication: 38 inches
So you would need to give out a 38” thick “phone book” with each menu. Note that this estimate is for publishing the calorie counts for build-your-own pizzas only & does not allow for double or triple pizza toppings or any of the other menu items. It also does not allow for other possible mandated listings such as salt, trans fat, cholesterol etc.
PointyHairedBoss on April 1, 2010 at 1:21 PM
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I didn't make this up, I am just repeating it.
How hard is this really?
Pizza places don’t like it because they are high carb restaurants. All that bread. And publishing the calories and the carbs will discourage customers.
Cordially,