The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it will give chain restaurants an extra year to comply with an Obamacare rule requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts for the foods they sell.

Chains, grocery stores that sell prepared foods and other covered businesses had said they needed more time to redo their menu boards, retrain workers and update software systems.

“In light of these requests, we have decided to extend the compliance date for the final rule to December 1, 2016,” the agency said in regulatory papers.

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