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I agree with Ann, good grief people should know what is fattening and what is not. It kind of makes me laugh as one would be seeing this 'Banana split contains 3500 K-cals.
Now anyone on a diet should not be ordering a banana split in the first place, but people bring their own diet salad dressing with them, then order dessert and this has never made any since to me.
These silly laws are taking over and becoming ridiculous in nature.
I can't imagine anyone seeing this salad contains 15k-cals and then saying 'Oh dear, that is 5 more k-cals than is on my diet? Who would do that? I guess they could only eat 3/4 of it and go back to work hungry.
I would never look at the k-cals in the first place, so actually it means nothing to me. Most people on diets and counting calories already have their books and know what is in something.
Yes it would be letting your non-chain restaurants off the hook. I can sure think of better ways of handling this.
Why don't they just have diet food restaurants around, instead of all this fuss people should already know about if they are on a diet. Now any one going to a non-chain restaurant know very well the food is going to be richer and they are going there because they are wanting something they really like and is special like pasta in a creme sauce or Shrimp in butter and garlic with angel hair. If they went for that type of dish they are not going to care one bit if they see this contains 3500k-cals. It may make them feel guilty and that seems a bit unfair as they went to enjoy not be re-minded.
I know in some nursing homes these people have no choice. I have heard complaints in ours as residents are eating pudding or jello and they say this is not fit to eat. I would get one and right away know it was diet stuff. (these residents were not on diets, regular diet only) So I called the kitchen asking why these people had been sent diet food and they reply was the 'chef' said so.
Now my opinion only is that diet sugar is poison (besides for the taste) so I made a complaint to the kitchen, which contains 6 duplicates that go to different departments.
Just one report and they stopped giving that diet sugar to regular diet residents. I was not the only nurse, there had been several complaints turned in.
I believe who ever was making it just was taking an easier way out.
Oh Six

Do you think there would be as many obese people in the world if they actually knew? Sher

Yes Sher I sure do think there would be just as many. I worked in the restaurant business a lot of years and the diet is nothing new. I knew overweight people for years and they were always on a diet, but never changed what they wanted to eat.
(Now you may have some that will care and use this) I don't see it making any difference what so ever. Its on the news all the time of the nation being overweight and reports say nothing really helps unless the people are serious.
I watched a program once of overweight ladies going from one fast food place to another, because they did not want the employees knowing how much they were eating?
Truth is the employees don't care. They would not have cared if the lady ate in the parking lot and then came through the window again.
They know the calories are high they have just chosen not to abide by their own rules. I wish it would help and they would use it, but I don't see it happening to any real percent of the overweight people on diets.
Oh Six