date:Oct 13, 2012
that receive letter grades for food service. It would not apply to grocery stores.
It is scheduled to go into effect in March.
Critics, including McDonald's and Coca-Cola, have assailed the ban as misguided and arbitrary, though Mayor Michael Bloomberg has billed it as both a health and fiscal initiative.
New York City spends an estimated $4 billion each year on medical care for overweight people, Bloomberg has said.
One in eight New Yorkers also suffers from diabetes, a disease often linked