Apparently the Sellwood Bridge is fixed, Wapato has been opened, and Cascade Behavioral Centers aren’t putting criminally insane people in our neighborhoods anymore. How do I know this? Because Mult Co has enough time on its collective hands to force restaurants into putting calorie counts on their menus because YOU ARE TOO FAT and doggone it, it’s up the Multnomah County Commissars to fix you. Jeff Cogan is now proposing the county require restaurants with 15 or more locations to put calorie counts on their menus. A decision is expected July 31st.
Nutritional and caloric information is already available from most, if not all, of these places if you want it–it’s certainly there online as a 5 minute search on the internet found (see below). Why, then do we need more regulation? Will requiring restaurants to put this info on the valuable real estate on their menus solve the problem of your eating too much? Restaurants are having a tough enough time right now as it is what with food costs going up (thanks to the enviros putting food in our gas tanks instead of in the stomachs of the hungry and the weak dollar).
Chili’s menu here:
http://www.chilis.com/menu/
Burgerville menu here:
http://www.burgerville.com/Our-Food/Kids-Menu-And-Nutrition.aspx
Sharis menu:
https://www.sharis.com/togo_web_menu.pdf
Dennys:
http://www.dennys.com/en/cms/Nutrition%2FAllergens/23.html
Outback Steakhouse:
http://www.outback.com/foodandmenus/nutritionalinfo.aspx