UKHospitality (UKH) chief executive Kate Nicholls has said the Government’s obesity strategy, which includes compulsory calorie information on menus, signals extra pressure for businesses already struggling.
Plans to introduce mandatory calorie labelling on pub menus would cause “great distress” for people with eating disorders, charities and MPs have warned.
The Government has launched a massive public consultation on calorie labelling for out-of-home food and drink, which could deliver the ultimatum on mandatory calorie labelling on pub food and drink.
The news one of the world’s largest winemakers, Treasury Wine Estates (TWE), is to provide calorific information across its portfolio of bottled wine has further fuelled the debate over the availability of dietary information in the drink sector.
Calorie labels for alcoholic drinks should be displayed on pump clips, menus and beer mats alongside the number of units a drink contains, according to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).
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