You can request one and most restaurants will provide one. Some states require by law that a listing of calorie and nutritional content be available. Many restaurants provide this information online, and you can visit the specific restaurant's website for more information on their food.
You can go and get a list of calories in food off of websites if you are dining at a fast food company or you can read the labels. It is required by law to have the listings of calories on all food.
One could find a listing of restaurants offering food sales nationwide in either their local yellow pages or greenbooks, or even in their monthly phonebook recieved on their porch.
You can find a listing of calories sold at McDonalds and Burger King by going on both of the companies' websites under nutrition information.
Restaurants are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration since society have a particular amount of calories that is wanted in each type of food. The drug administration can be found since food must identify the iron, calcium, and ecetera in food.
There are quite a few websites out there that have listings of calories in food. Here are a few really good ones to check out: http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calories_in_food.htm AND http://thecaloriecounter.com/
Lists of top rated New York City restaurants can be found in many places. Some of these include: food magazines such as Food & Wine, sites such as Zagat, and newspapers such as The New York Times.
If you want to lower your weight and watch what you eat you can watch how many calories are in the foods you eat. The less calories you eat and the more you burn during exercise and the more weight you will lose.
Some restaurants do offer diabetic menus. If not, the best way is to do a quick diabetic exchange and order the food based on the diabetic exchange. A lot of restaurants willing to alter their recipe to suite the customer request. The best way is to call and check if they offer such a service.
In most places, I believe fast food restaurants are required to provide nutritional data to you upon request. Many make it available on their websites.
Because it's fattening and has a lot of calories
The caloriecounter.com allows you to keep track of your calories consumed and also offers a list of how many calories are in certain foods. calorieking.com has tons of entries of calories ranging from restaurants to simple things you eat at home and is very simple to use.
calories are energy. food contains calories, so when you eat food, the calories within the food power your body.