--- title: FDA to Announce New Calorie Count Display Rules description: The FDA will announce new rules on Tuesday requiring posted calorie counts at restaurants, movie theaters and vending machines. canonical: https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-25T12:23:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:21:23.150Z article:section: Health og:title: FDA to Announce New Calorie Count Display Rules og:description: The FDA will announce new rules on Tuesday requiring posted calorie counts at restaurants, movie theaters and vending machines. og:url: https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea809242c238698b/69876acfcd68484283098387/calories-fda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4205 og:image:height: 2365 og:image:alt: Nutritional Information Label og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: FDA to Announce New Calorie Count Display Rules twitter:description: The FDA will announce new rules on Tuesday requiring posted calorie counts at restaurants, movie theaters and vending machines. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea809242c238698b/69876acfcd68484283098387/calories-fda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Calorie Counts Will Be Required More Places Than Ever Before Under New Rules > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 25, 2014 12:23 PM UTC  Nutritional Information Label Nutritional Information Label Fuse/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 25, 2014 12:23 PM UTC Regulators on Tuesday will announce [new rules](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/fda-to-announce-sweeping-calorie-rules-for-restaurants.html) mandating that a wider array of businesses than ever before display calorie counts for their food, including chain restaurants, movie theaters and even vending machines. The rules will be unveiled Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration and will take effect in one year, the New York _Times_ reports, amid a push to combat [obesity](http://time.com/3597407/obesity-global-cost-report/) in the U.S. “This is one of the most important public health nutrition policies ever to be passed nationally,” said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The rules will cover restaurants with 20 or more locations, amusement parks, vending machines and certain foods in grocery stores. And for the first time, alcoholic beverages will be included, too. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/fda-to-announce-sweeping-calorie-rules-for-restaurants.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/"},"headline":"Calorie Counts Will Be Required More Places Than Ever Before Under New Rules","datePublished":"2014-11-25T12:23:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:21:23.150Z","description":"FDA unveiling new guidelines","url":"https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/","keywords":["Food","calories","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea809242c238698b/69876acfcd68484283098387/calories-fda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea809242c238698b/69876acfcd68484283098387/calories-fda.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nutritional Information Label","caption":"Nutritional Information Label","creditText":"Fuse/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3604599/fda-calorie-counts-obesity/","name":"Calorie Counts Will Be Required More Places Than Ever Before Under New Rules"}}]}] ```