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Article: Houston's restaurant outsmarts calorie cops; Changes name, menu to avoid posting rule.(NEWS)
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- Crain's New York Business
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: LISA FICKENSCHER
The city's activist health department is not known for backing down from a fight, particularly one involving restaurants, which it blames for an obesity epidemic in New York.
But the agency was forced last month to retreat from its stand against Houston's, an upscale California restaurant chain that fought to keep caloric information off its menus.
The health department reluctantly withdrew the violations against Houston's, which circumvented the calorie-posting rule by changing its menus and the name of its two New York eateries.
Winning at any cost
"They won, says Thomas Merrill, general counsel to ...