Yum Brands to Provide Calorie Information to Customers
Once again, California seems to be setting nation's pace on legislation: in the wake of a state law mandating restaurant chains to include calorie counts on menus or menu boards, Yum Brands has announced that it will do so nationwide starting in 2011.
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um owns KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other chains.
The company wants to see a national law modeled on California's. That makes sense, just as it made sense for California to pass a law rather than â€" as almost happened â€" having a lot of different local laws with varied provisions and standards, and asking chains to adhere to all of them.
Look for other chains to soon follow Yum's lead.