First they began offering salad, then they added fruit. Recently, McDonald’s announced it would put something else on its menu to help customers watch their waistlines: calorie counts.
The fast-food giant said it will begin listing calorie information at its more than 14,000 restaurants and drive-through windows across the US.
Over the years, McDonald’s has come under fire for offering too few healthy menu items at a time when obesity, the number one public health scourge in the US, afflicts one in three Americans.
America’s most popular restaurant, McDonald’s serves more than 25 million customers every day.