[cammie]

But you can’t do that research very easily when standing in line at a Starbucks or at a movie theatre.

I’m not sure what the whole uproar over this law on FR is all about (other than the fact that NYC is depised). We get calorie counts on everything in a grocery store as soon as we pick up an item...what’s so wrong with requiring all the info likewise be placed right in front of us in a fast food joint?

As a NYer, this is one of my favorite NYC laws in the past decade. It hasn’t taken away any of my autonomy, but provides full disclosure so that if I want to, I can make better choices when eating on the fly (”There’s HOW MANY CALORIES IN THAT DONUT?”)

[GOP_Lady]

You can do your research online at their website before you go in.

[what's up]

It hasn’t taken away any of my autonomy, but provides full disclosure

No, it just takes away the autonomy of hundreds of businesses who now have to put their profits toward obeying a new law which will result in their profits being further reduced. Sheesh.

[GOP_Lady]

By now, one should know approximately how many calories are in a doughnut. If not, maybe one should not eat it. I would not like to live in an area with the type of nanny-state government that NYC has — it deprives freedom and takes away responsibility from the individual — bigger and bigger and bigger government.

[GOP_Lady]

I live in the #4 county in the nation (according to Forbes Magazine) in which to raise a family — SMALLER government — and it’s why I moved there in 1989. I don’t think I would even want to visit NYC — just not my type of tea.