Consumer Law

San Francisco Bans Happy Meals

By Brian Wolfman

Read about it in this LA Times article. Here's an excerpt:

San Francisco's board of supervisors has voted, by a veto-proof margin, to ban most of McDonald's Happy Meals as they are now served in the restaurants.The measure will make San Francisco the first major city in the country to forbid restaurants from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat.

And here's the Restaurant Association's response:

Daniel Conway, spokesman for the California Restaurant Assn., bemoaned the ordinance's passage and contrasted it with San Franciscans' exuberant feelings after the Giants won the world series on Monday night. "One day you're world champions, and the next day, no toys for you," Conway said.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).