Interesting Article on Restaurants Posting Calorie Informati

JudyZ

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25464987

YAY for NYC! More of this is necessary if America is to wake up, get informed, and reverse the trend of obesity and sickness in this country.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here. We are here because we WANT to know what we are putting into our bodies. I was surprised by the people at the end of this article who said that they didn't want to know because it made them feel bad about their choices!

Knowledge, and the application of it...is POWER!

Judy

margaretthedevil

The fact that people would ask for the older menus and rather be ignorant about the number of calories in their food strikes me as rather sad. I don't see why you would be upset at the amount of calories that you consume when it's the truth. Why would you want to LIE TO YOURSELF?! Wouldn't you be more upset if you assumed wrongly? If you can't handle knowing the calories then maybe you shouldn't be going to these restaurants in the first place. I never go to Applebees, Fridays, other restaurant chains...My friends and I already know about the crazy amount of calories in every meal. There's a lot better choices in New York City also. :laugh:

Posting calorie counts in restaurants is a good thing as eventually restaurants will have to change their menus (as people stop buying the worst dishes) to stuff with fewer calories actual "healthier" options. I mean 1,500 for a piece of cake? Where the heck did those calories come from? What would be really interesting to see is the INGREDIENTS of that cake.

Btw most restaurant chains already post calorie counts on their websites. I always like to check those out. And I usually end up not going. Lol.

Great article!

lotusfromthemud

I will add to this with the fact that any nutritional info given by a restaurant should be considered at best a low estimate.

I worked for years in a restaurant kitchen, and didn't measure a thing. Also, one of my kitchen managers taught me (and this is industry standard) that if something didn't look right, add more butter. (and this was to pasta sauces that started with four tablespoons (that's half a stick!) of compound butter.

My hope is that having to be more forthcoming with nutritional estimates will make restaurants shrink their portion sizes. I'm an American living in Canada, and whenever I visit the states I am shocked at the differences (and portion sizes are quickly catching up to the states up here).

keiko

Bigger isn't always better. Most of these restaurants have huge portions. If I can't split with someone or take half home I still only eat half and leave the rest. Sometimes I've eaten less than half.

We were out one night and I'm sure I got half of a pound of angel hair pasta served to me. The rest of the dish was great. Lightly sauted tomatoes, garlic, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil with grilled chicken. A normal serving of pasta with it would have been great. But pasta is cheap so they pile it on. Then to top it off this place has on their menu that they charge $5 to split a plate. That is ridiculous. Needless to say I left alot of pasta.

Georg

We went out to breakfast at IHOP the other morning after a red-eye flight home.
The nutritional info is very misleading. The omelette breakfasts were all over 1000 calories because they included all the extra pancakes & potatoes that come with the meal. But they don't mention whether they included the butter & syrup.
Accuracy still isn't at the top of their list.