Posted on 04/04/2017 4:46:14 PM PDT by Hojczyk
However, another rule is set to take effect soon that might just take the cake. Or pizza, in this case:
The nation’s franchise restaurants are about one month away from the imposition of new nutritional-labeling rules dreamed up by the Obama administration, another gift of the grievously misnamed Affordable Care Act. For outlets of brands with 20 or more locations, that means posting signs in the shop with calorie counts for every item on the menu and for every variation on that item. That’s probably not such a big deal if you are, say, Raising Cane’s, and your menu ranges from one chicken finger to 100 chicken fingers. It’s a little different if you are a pizza shop, because pizza has a lot of variables.
A lot.
“We did the math,” says Tim McIntyre, an executive at Domino’s and chairman of (not making this up) the American Pizza Community, a thing that exists. “With gluten-free crusts to thick to hand-tossed to pan pizza, multiple sizes, cheeses, toppings ... there are about 34 million possible combinations.” He does a pretty good deadpan delivery: “That is difficult to put on a menu.”
That’s going to be a big sign.
Pretty stupid, right?
However, as they say on TV: but wait -- there's more.
The law requires these listings to be inside the store. The problem is, places like Domino's and other pizza delivery places get the vast majority of their orders either online or via phone calls to the store. Remarkably few people enter a store, look at a menu, and order.
That means companies will be spending a lot of money on signs -- money that won't go toward employee pay or benefits -- that will never be seen by the majority of customers.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Best bet would be to just ignore the law ... if anyone investigates just say you are a black Democrat or Clinton relative.
Reason #4,279 to repeal Obamacare and leave NOTHING in its place.
Or an illegal alien
Nanny State ping
One thing that European (Well, German anyway) restaurants had to do by law I guess, pre-EU, was post a menu outside the restaurant, usually right at the entrance. It didn’t have any calorie information. Just prices.
The idea was to avoid embarrasment on the part of the customer. Anyway I thought it was an interesting contrast, because all them edumacated folks are always telling us how “we need to be more like Europe.”
This is something that Pres. Trump and co., should $chi+kan, all it does is raise the cost of food for everyone, more regulatory nanny state BS that nobody will pay attention to. I suppose, somewhere, this information should be made available to those who request it.
I suggest handing them a copy of Dept. of Agriculture Handbook #8, it has the food value and nutritional information of all common foods.
Point being, this $&@!! has to stop. It’s just nonsense at every level.
Crazy. If you’re eating pizza, you clearly do not care about your health.
What are the new regs for salad bars?
Really! It doesn’t take much of anything to qualify to become a Democrat. No need for brains to qualify for certain. All one needs is emotions, and the ability to contribute to the party in one form, or another. Preferably with money. Lots of money is preferred. If in doubt just ask the party, and they will lead you by the hand down their yellow brick road.
“If you’re eating pizza, you clearly do not care about your health.”
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I assume that you are joking.
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Liberals ignore the laws they don’t agree with. They now hypocritically invoke states rights to ignore laws they dont like.
Paging Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, the Freedom Caucus and the other GOP: Let’s get rid of this booger already! #fullrepeal
Nanny State PING!
Simple
A Presidential edict to put this information on line.
The Dems are not interested in nutritional values or they would tie Food Stamp use to only healthy foods. (No soda, chips or other empty calorie items.)
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