April 2008 Archives
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court said on Tuesday that a new rule requiring New York City fast food restaurants to post calorie information on menu boards is effective immediately.
It's a done deal: NYC calorie-count rule effective immediately: court
I've already become used to these menu boards at Subway, which has had them for over a year because they have nothing to hide:
The slightly more-caloric chains fought the legislation since it might cause customers to reconsider their choice:
One of the claims was that adding the calorie information would the make the menu impossible to read. Here is what Dunkin' Donuts presented:
And here is how New York City responded:
Just another health-inspired law from the first major city to ban smoking and trans fats!
Photo Credit: Most of these photos are from Menu Board Calories Arrive in New York on "Weighty Matters" where they are licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada license.
While the newkai.com domain will be sticking around, I killed the over-eight-year-old "The New Kai" concept of this website. Not only was it horribly out of date content and design-wise, much of it was broken!
"The New Kai" concept was based on fifteen-to-eighteen-year-old me and simply had to be discarded of. I now work about fifty hours a week, spend six-plus hours in the gym, enjoy nightlife, and sleep most of the weekend to recuperate from the previous three. It was time for me to upgrade to a much simpler content management system.
Any of the worthy content from the old site will be carried over here eventually. You'll already find a link to my two photo sites in the "pages" section of the main page. I might even bring back the KaiCams sometime, although I think they'll be a little more outdoors oriented this time! They certainly did a lot for the uniqueness of this site.
Even maintaining a website in this age of Facebook is a struggle. See my post about this last year.
Here are images I dug up of newkai.com versions 1 & 2:
I'm finally freeing myself of frames on newkai.com. While they improved the site's appearance back in the day, there's no use for them in 2008. And last but not least, there's no more 18-year-old me frozen all over the screen!