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PPACA menu regulations finalized

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued menu-labeling rules that force restaurants, movie theaters and grocery stores to add calorie information to the food they sell.

By Anna Edney | Updated on November 25, 2014
In this file photo, calories of each food item appear on a McDonalds drive-thru menu in New York. (AP Photo/Ed Ou, File)

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seeking to fight obesity, issued menu-labeling rules that force restaurants, movie theaters and grocery stores to add calorie information to the food they sell.

The regulations catch the rest of the country up to what cities like New York have already done. Pizzerias, whose a la carte options make precise nutrition information difficult, will have to provide a range of calorie counts. Movie theaters, which had been spared in a draft version, were included in the final rules, as were alcoholic beverages.

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