Taco Time Customers Unaffected By Calorie Labels, Study Says
This article is for subscribers only.
Menus listing calorie counts at Taco Time restaurants in Seattle didn’t change customers’ eating habits, according to a study that calls into question plans to implement similar laws across the U.S.
More than a year after a local law took effect, total sales and average calories per transaction at Taco Time restaurants in King County, Washington -- which includes Seattle -- were identical to those at restaurants where the laws didn’t apply, researchers from the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School found.