"Table 5 Had a Burger — Report It to Westminster."

Published 03.07.2025

Is this the level of absurdity we will now have to deal with?

According to the latest trade chatter, restaurants might soon be required to report average calories consumed by guests— part of a new government push to tackle obesity.

They’re not just missing the point — they’re deliberately dodging it. It’s easier to slap more paperwork on hospitality than to face off with the suppliers, manufacturers, and structural issues they’ve let slide for decades.

• Not through education.

• Not through food access.

• Not through regulating the suppliers flooding the market with cheap, high-calorie junk.

Nope. Through us.

Because obviously the problem is the small, independent restaurant plating up good food — not the ultra-processed snack aisles or dodgy fried chicken takeaways lining every high street.

 If you want a healthier nation:

• Start with school meals

• Provide access to fresh ingredients

• Regulate what’s being sold, before it hits our kitchens

Hospitality businesses are barely standing as it is. The cost of living, staffing, energy — and now you want us to become public health data collectors too?

• Let us cook.

• Let us feed people well.

• Let us be hosts to our guests and not someone reminding them to watch their weight.

• Let us be part of the solution — but don’t make us do your dirty work.