Follow the Eight P’s to Fulfill Menu Labeling Guidelines (Infographic)

New menu-labeling guidelines for restaurants scheduled to take effect in May 2018 are necessary but not sufficient to create the tipping point toward healthy default eat-out options for Americans.

The U.S. restaurant sector  has made underwhelming progress to promote healthy and profitable choices for customers over more than 10 years (2006-2017). The National Restaurant Association has projected U.S. eating establishment sales to exceed $550 billion dollars in 2017, representing 48 percent of household income that Americans spent on food. 

Quick service restaurants, fast casual and full-service restaurant chains are not yet fully committed to change industry-wide practices that drive poor diet quality, obesity and rates of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and one-third of children are obese.  It’s not getting any better, and chain and independent restaurants…