Counting calories at your local restaurant may soon be a requirement in Multnomah County.

Commissioners are considering a menu mandate that’s drawing mixed reactions. The county may soon join a small-but-growing list of places requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts on the menu.

Stefan Kamph would prefer not to know the calories in his order of food.

The county says it's not forcing the proposal down customers' throats, but the idea is to require calorie counts printed on chain restaurant menus and is long overdue for a country still struggling against obesity.

“I think it's great for people to be nutritionally aware I don't know if going by the numbers is the way to do it,” he said.

Chains like Pizzicato would have to change their menus and provide carbohydrate, fat and sodium info upon customer request.

Leigh Feldman thinks it's a brilliant idea.It might help him pick which item to order on a menu.

“Because I sit at a desk all day i don't get a lot of time to exercise, it'd be nice to know my caloric intake on a daily basis you know,” Feldman said.

The county says the Hilton Hotel downtown is strongly opposing the idea.

Mom-and-pop vendors are generally supportive, since the law wouldn't apply to them.

Eating out in Multnomah County may soon be more nutritionally informative -- like it or not.

(KGW Reporter Randy Neves contributed to this report)