Pita Pit Weighs In On FDA Calorie Info on Menus

Pita Pit was recently featured in The Ledger. Pita Pit’s VP of Research and Development Benjamin Drake was interviewed for an article about the new FDA regulations requiring franchises to display calorie information on menus. Pita Pit, a leader in the healthy food segment, has been displaying calorie information for more than two years now. You can read the full article here, or continue reading below.

“Chains Prepare as FDA Rule Requires Calorie Info on Menus”

By John Ceballos

Benjamin Drake, vice president of research and development for Pita Pit, acknowledges the rule can potentially be an inconvenience.

"Now, if we make a change to a product — like using a different protein or switching to a different kind of ham — then the calorie count becomes lower and higher, and we have to change everything in terms of our menu.

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Analyze this: The cost of counting calories

Pita Pit were recently featured in Restaurant Business Magazine in an article titled, "Analyze this: The cost of counting calories". The article focuses on how restaurants have had their menu analyzed for nutritional elements and discusses how Pita Pit has focused on nutritional content on its menu. You can read they full article by clicking here or you can begin below.

"Analyze this: The cost of counting calories"
By Amanda Baltazar

It's been four years since President Obama decreed, through the Affordable Care Act, that restaurants with 20 or more units list caloric information for standard menu items. The Food and Drug Administration is still finalizing the rules, but restaurants will have to contend with them any day now. How do you fit hefty menu analyses that can stretch over hundreds of SKUs into the budget. We asked several operators, who already have gone through the process to share what worked - and didn't work - for them.

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