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What Kind Of Restaurant Is This?

By on February 26, 2013 in Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

You can tell a lot from a restaurant’s menu – not just what you can get to eat, but some other things, too.  It would be kind of weird to have spaghetti and meatballs on the cover of a pancake house restaurant – and it would be kind of gross to have grease stains and [...]

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Do Restaurant Menus Influence What You Order?

By on January 19, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Food for Fun and Thought, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

As you sit down at your table, the waiter hands you your menu.  You scan the pages with your eyes darting here and there. Where do they land? Menus are one way a restaurant attempts to build trust with you and if the menu you’re looking at has a well thought out design, psychology is [...]

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Do Restaurant Meals Sabotage Your Diet?

By on September 22, 2011 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food

Are you afraid to eat out for fear of “blowing your diet” or because you think there aren’t good choices to be had? Are you tired of hearing that you shouldn’t go to restaurants if you want to control what you eat? Choices You can choose to eat out and eat well. You are responsible [...]

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Control Calories

By on January 13, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight

Americans eat out, on average, six times a week. I’ve read that statistic in many places and can’t argue with it. I often eat out a lot (more than six times a week if the truth be told) — for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and in all kinds of restaurants – diners, cafeterias, and places with tablecloths on the tables.

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