We don’t even want to know what’s in that food!
In abidance with a new Manhattan law, chain restaurants with at least 15 locations are required to provide calorie counts on their menus, but Houston’s is putting up quite the fight!
Several Houston’s locations in Manhattan have gone so far as to change their name and menu to avoid the city’s mandates.
The restaurant claims that items are not consistent in each location.
For example, the 53rd St. location serves a grilled jumbo artichoke, while the Park Ave. has an identical dish now titled grilled California artichokes.
Several ingredients continue to be altered as the chain hopes to escape the daunting caloric reveal!
“It’s clear as day it doesn’t apply,” said Craig Pincus, the kitchen manager at Houston’s E. 53rd St. location. “He has sushi downtown – I don’t serve sushi. We have different menu items. I use local produce companies and local meat companies that someone in California doesn’t use.”
The quality might be different, but the calorie count would be the same!
On the Manhattan menus, the name has been changed to Hillstone, the restaurant’s parent company, though outside the sign remains Houston’s.
We’re pretty sure that the tell-tale sign of a chain is, indeed, a parent company!
“We told Houston’s that their menus are substantially similar and that they would need to comply,” Associate Health Department Commissioner Elliott Marcus, who slapped the restaurant with a fine.
A judge will rule in this fight next month.
Their reluctance makes us not wanna eat there!!!