Study Shows 15% of New York Diners Look at Calorie Counts on Menus July 26, 2011 -- A new study suggests many customers of fast-food restaurants aren't taking advantage of calorie information provide on some menus. About 15% of people who buy fast food in New York City read the calorie information required on menus, the study shows.
LAST Tuesday, Connor Moran, a limit-the-red-meat, increase-the-greens, eat-salad-for-lunch kind of guy, stopped into a Bronx Dunkin' Donuts for his usual black coffee, no sugar, no cream. He walked out with a sandwich of egg and bacon between two halves of a glazed doughnut.