Papa John's isn't the only pizza chain speaking out about Obamacare.
Domino's Pizza has told the press that Obamacare's calorie-listing requirement
is creating unique problems for their business. In his email newsletter, blogger
Jim Geraghty relayed this message from Steve Burke with the American Pizza
Community (APC): "Any day now, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is
expected to rule on Section 4205 of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act (i.e., ObamaCare), a one-size-fits-all menu labeling regulation, that
requires restaurants, including franchised chains with 20 or more locations, to
post calorie and nutritional information for all of their products on in-store
menu boards costing locally owned businesses up to $4,000 per year. For a
company like Domino's, a company that already posts an online calorie
calculator, that means in store menu boards for all of its 34
million pizza combinations. Additionally, ninety percent of their
customers, who get their food delivered, will never step foot inside the
store to see the signs. For some supermarkets it could mean providing calorie
information for every combination of cakes and pies (assuming the store has a
bakery) as well as every combination that can be put together at a salad bar."
"Whether the bill will hurt sales for items like Domino's 580-calorie
MeatZZa Feast Brooklyn Crust Extra Large Slice -- which is one of the most
unhealthy slices of pizza in the country, according to The Daily Beast -- is
unclear," says an article
in the Ann Arbor Press. Actually, the evidence so far is pretty clear that
calorie listings on restaurant menus have little
or no effect on what customers order.
