Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires chain restaurants with 15 or more locations to make calorie counts and other nutritional information for each menu item available to customers.

Highlights:

-Defines "chain restaurant" as a restaurant with a trade name or service mark that has 15 or more locations in the United States, with a menu composed of at least 80% standardized items (Sec.1). -Requires chain restaurants to make written lists with the total calories, grams of saturated fat, grams of trans fat, grams of carbohydrates, and milligrams of sodium for each menu item available to customers (Sec. 2). -Requires chain restaurants to post calorie information next to each item on their menus, menu board, or food tag in a size and typeface no less prominent than that used to display the price of the menu item (Sec. 3). -Allows the Department of Human Services to inspect chain restaurants for compliance with this Act and establishes a penalty for violations (Sec. 5). -Prevents local governments from having local requirements concerning the disclosure of nutritional information by restaurants (Sec. 6).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires chain restaurants with 15 or more locations to make calorie counts and other nutritional information for each menu item available to customers.

Highlights:

-Defines "chain restaurant" as a restaurant with a trade name or service mark that has 15 or more locations in the United States, with a menu composed of at least 80% standardized items (Sec.1). -Requires chain restaurants to make written lists with the total calories, grams of saturated fat, grams of trans fat, grams of carbohydrates, and milligrams of sodium for each menu item available to customers (Sec. 2). -Requires chain restaurants to post calorie information next to each item on their menus, menu board, or food tag in a size and typeface no less prominent than that used to display the price of the menu item (Sec. 3). -Allows the Department of Human Services to inspect chain restaurants for compliance with this Act and establishes a penalty for violations (Sec. 5). -Prevents local governments from having local requirements concerning the disclosure of nutritional information by restaurants (Sec. 6).

Full Bill Text