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McDonald’s restaurants begins showing calories on menus in UK
Things are going to look very different in McDonald’s restaurants from this week. Where normally the ‘diners’ would shuffle to the counter to place their order, you can now expect to first see them standing and staring at a menu, while doing some mental arithmetic or calculator-fuelled sums.
About 1,200 McDonald’s restaurants in Britain will begin displaying the calorie count of each food and drink item on their wall-mounted menu boards this week, as part of a government-led program to fight obesity and promote healthier eating.
McDonald’s restaurants already puts calorie information on its Web site and the back of its tray liners, but this is the first time the figures will be displayed prominently in its restaurants outside the U.S.