{"id":20225,"date":"2014-02-26T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20225"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:23:24","slug":"obamacare-menu-regulations-could-decrease-food-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20225\/obamacare-menu-regulations-could-decrease-food-options\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Menu Regulations Could Decrease Food Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTucked deep in the Affordable Care Act is language requiring all restaurants with at least 20 locations to list nutritional information alongside each and every item on the menu,\u201d writes Peter Doocy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/02\/25\/obamacare-menu-headache\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose is to inform customers about the nutritional value of a menu item before ordering.<\/p>\n<p>This regulation hits made-to-order eateries particularly hard, since in practice the restaurant would have to provide customers with things like calorie counts on-the-fly \u2013 a nearly impossible task for places like Domino\u2019s where up to \u201c34 million different pizza combinations [are] available at the chain, when all crusts and cheeses and toppings are factored in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the cost of compliance will fall on franchisees; i.e., the small business owners most at risk under the new regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Domino\u2019s and other groups are pushing for a solution that would deem restaurant owners compliant if they provide the nutritional information online or through an app.<\/p>\n<p>But if that fails, it\u2019s easy to see eateries cutting back on menu options and clamping down on substitutions. \u201cHave-it-your-way\u201d may soon become \u201cTalk to the FDA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the proposed nutritional rule goes into effect as-is, Americans can add food to the growing number of health-related choices \u2013 including doctors, hospitals and insurance plans \u2013 that are being reduced thanks to Obamacare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTucked deep in the Affordable Care Act is language requiring all restaurants with at least 20 locations to list nutritional information alongside each and every item on the menu,\u201d writes Peter Doocy at Fox News. The purpose is to inform customers about the nutritional value of a menu item before ordering. This regulation hits made-to-order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,1136,1155,3308,35,300],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-fda","tag-food","tag-health","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20231,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions\/20231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}