By Elizabeth Fernandez

Many restaurants like coffee shops, barbecue joints, and nightclubs with bottle-service are going to start selling smaller glasses of soda in New York. Many restaurants are unhappy about this new banning of the size of the sugary beverages. On March 12, all restaurants in NYC will be prohibited to sell glasses of soda over 16 ounces. At Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, customers will no longer be able to order 24-ounce glasses of soda. The city officials say it’s a new, practical step to help stop an obesity rate that has risen from 18 to 24 percent in the last decade among adult New Yorkers. Health officials say sugar-filled drinks are much to blame because they contain hundreds of calories. A 32-ounce soda has more than a typical fast-food cheeseburger and it doesn’t make people feel full. However, the new restriction does not apply to alcoholic beverages.