Calling all Calories!

Soon, it will be impossible to ignore how many calories are in your Bloomin’ Onion. Restaurant menu labeling laws — which may require a dining establishment to disclose anything from calorie content to sodium levels to genetically modified ingredients — have existed, in various forms, at the state and city level for many years. The first federal mandates for menu labeling are a facet of President Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA; Section 4205). Because that act still stands, despite recently renewed discussions to repeal it, those laws become enforceable starting in May.

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