Restaurant chains, vending machines will have to post calories

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 19:42 in Mathematics & Economics

In an effort to tackle national obesity, the FDA's draft guidelines require any businesses with more than 20 locations to post the calorie information in the same size type as the menu item or price.Many chain restaurants and vending machines would have to display the number of calories in their food for consumers under draft guidelines released Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.

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