Starting Monday, the city of Philadelphia begins enforcing its new menu labeling law, requiring restaurants to post calorie counts of foods right on the menu.
The ordinance, which was passed back in November 2008, requires restaurants and fast food joints with more than 15 locations to post calorie amounts as well as fat content, sodium levels and more on menu boards both inside and at drive-thrus.
But will seeing that Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese you’re about to stuff down your gullet is 740 calories — 380 of which is from fat — really matter?
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