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Originally Posted by jsntay

You would think that it would be law to post nutritional values by now.

The problem is that of how do you paint an entire industry with a single brush??

How would a mom and pop (aka independent) restaurant comply? I know that it would be a nightmare for me to have tried to give anything but a ballpark figure for my whipped up specials!

Now the big chains already know whats were within a range, cuz thats how they keep control of costs but how does one make them give that info without making the little guy without those resources do the same?

Then we get into liability. The big L

As soon as they do publish nutritional data the first time the guy in the kitchen throws a few extra fries on the plate cuz he would rather have someone eat them than toss them or in our case we never really kept that close track we just dropped a handful, a lawyer somewhere is going to sue because the data was wrong and someone failed to count the extra carbs and didn't take enough insulin or etc etc etc.

Now I would be happy if they would put out a "ballpark" average figure for menu items and let you know that the numbers may vary, but somehow I don't think the food police will be satisfied with that.