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Restaurants are meant for people to enjoy the great dining experience at that location. So to enjoy such great pleasures, good food at the place comes to your mind. I believe you would not want to spend all the time and effort, just to have a proper look and count the amount of calories in that meal itself.

Although it is just a healthy approach in life to inform people over the amount of calories present, but showing the calories and fat grams will only make you have a limited choices in the restaurant. Additional information like these will make people consider over and over again, make them feel more undecided, frustrated over food choices.

These information when hidden, will still automatically make you exercise, after eating very rich in fat and calorie food. Exercise is part of the human life, it's seriously unavoidable. Nobody in modern day life want to look fat and chubby. Everybody wants to look like a model, a superstar or even a body builder. Such factors will always be in their strain of thoughts when they start to consume their food. So actually, when you have exercising and living a balanced diet., you will always look great and healthy.

Restaurants will also have second thoughts over their menu, everybody wants a fair share of good business in their restaurants. If you start measuring calories and fat content, people will even avoid their signature dish in the restaurant, due to the fact that the signature dish is really oily and high in both calories and fat. Your purpose of having a signature dish in the restaurant becomes pretty pointless. You may argue that lowering the oil, the amount of salt used and take other measures to keep it healthy. Improvising using these measures sometimes destroys the original taste, the original texture that all customers who enter your restaurant would want.

I agree that people's lifestyle has changed over the years. People start to become health cautious, careful of what they eat. On the contrary, people who do not enjoy the goodness of eating great food, will never have a second chance when they are suddenly struck with incurable diseases, diseases that prevent them from having the simplest of pleasures of eating.

This subject is still debatable, but I would still go on the fact that restaurants should not include calories and fat content information. It simply destroys the pleasure of having good food.

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