About one year ago, New York City passed a law mandating calorie counts to be posted on menu items. I have been to the city a few times since this law passed, and I hope WA follows this mandate. From a nutrition stand point I wish all restaurants would post this information, but I am sure it would cost businesses a great deal of money to change menu boards and printed menus.

The full release about the calorie posing is as follows:

The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously to require all city chain restaurants to post calorie data on their menus. Chain restaurants already must make the calorie counts of their menu items publicly available, but beginning March 31 they will have to put the numbers on menu boards and menus. The change will affect restaurants with 15 or more outlets—roughly 10 percent of all city restaurants, according to a news release from the city’s health department.

More information right here.