First - Ever Law Requiring Chain Restaurants To Post Calories on All Menus

Last month in July 19, Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow.

Some New Yorkers had a serious case of "calorie shock" on Saturday. The city started enforcing the nation's first-ever law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on all menus - leaving some diners to find out their favorite food had hundreds more calories than they had thought. Violating restaurants face fines of up to 2-thousand dollars -

Cathy Nonas of the city's health department has high hopes for the new law. ((Cathy Nonas, NYC Department of Health)) "We hope this has a huge impact on obesity, and of course if it has an impact on obesity it will have an impact on diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Some of the calorie counts posted Saturday were very high.

At T-G-I Fridays, this appetizer, called a Jack Daniels Sampler has a whopping 2-thousand 330 calories. "We hope the restaurant will be shamed into not offering a 2300 calorie appetizer unless they suggest 10 people share it."

If you were hoping to just have a salad for dinner at Fridays, you might want to avoid this one, it's got 1110 calories.

At Starbucks this little piece of Banana Nut Coffee Cake has 480 calories, while this Vanilla Bean Frappucinno has 600 calories.

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