Enter the Pizza Police
ObamaCare is coming for your Domino’s pizza — by forcing restaurants to add nutritional labels to every menu. Starting next month, an obscure part of the Affordable Care Act will force chains with 20 or more locations to post calorie counts for each item on the menu — and every variation on that item. The rule also hits supermarkets that sell takeout, such as salad bars.
Most chain franchises are small businesses, with thin profit margins. That’s why trade groups are urging the Trump administration to delay the regulation — which the
Obama Office of Management and Budget admitted would require more than 14.5 million hours of compliance.
To be fair, the rule may be less harsh than it sounds — you can list calorie ranges to cover, say, the difference between a “lean” pizza and one that’s loaded with fatty extras.
But it’s still silly — because there’s no evidence that giving people this information actually prompts them to make healthier choices. (To do that, you have to go full Bloomberg and outright ban the things you don’t want them consuming.)
Obsessive calorie-counters may not like it — but they don’t eat Domino’s, anyway.