ArticlePublic health nutrition2016
Food for thought: obstacles to menu labelling in restaurants and cafeterias.
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- Consumers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward Calorie Labeling in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Assessment.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- What Is on the Menu?-A Quantitative Analysis on Label Format among (Potential) Restaurant Guests and Restaurant Owners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- An evaluation and exploration of Irish food-service businesses' uptake of and attitudes towards a voluntary government-led menu energy (calorie) labelling initiative.Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- Barriers and facilitators to implementation of menu labelling interventions to support healthy food choices: a mixed methods systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2018Article
- Compulsory calorie labelling of foods. A response to 'Food for thought: obstacles to menu labelling in restaurants and cafeterias' by E Thomas.Public health nutrition · 2016Article
- Nutrition information and front-of-pack labelling: issues in effectiveness.Public health nutrition · 2016Article
- Compulsory calorie-labelling of menu items is not a panacea for the obesity epidemic. A response to 'Compulsory calorie labelling of foods' by Nikolaou and Lean.Public health nutrition · 2016Article
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Abstract
Menu labelling is recommended as a policy intervention to reduce obesity and diet-related disease. The present commentary considers the many challenges the restaurant industry faces in providing nutrition information on its menus. Barriers include lack of nutrition expertise, time, cost, availability of nutrition information for exotic ingredients, ability to provide accurate nutrition information, libel risk, customer dissatisfaction, limited space on the menu, menu variations, loss of flexibility in changing the menu, staff training and resistance of employees to change current practice. Health promotion specialists and academics involved in fieldwork must help restaurateurs find solutions to these barriers for menu labelling interventions to be widely implemented and successful. Practical support for small independent restaurants such as free or subsidised nutrition analysis, nutrition training for staff and menu design may also be necessary to encourage voluntary participation.
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