All right, I’ve got a little beef with the “family” restaurants—Applebee’s, Chili’s, Cheddar’s, TGI Friday’s, Olive Garden, Zio’s. Of course, I’m trying to be a gazelle (a Dave Ramsey term) and be mindful of what I eat, so when Chris and I decided to go on a date for dinner, I raced to the restaurant’s web site to look up the menu’s nutritional information. What did I find? Nadda.
WTF? Every fast food restaurant (and even some sit-down places) I can think of has their nutritional information posted:
- A & W
- Burger King
- Captain D’s
- Chick-Fil-A
- Dairy Queen
- Domino’s Pizza
- Hardee’s
- KFC
- Long John Silver’s
- McDonald’s
- Panera
- Papa John’s
- Pizza Hut
- San Francisco Oven
- Ruby Tuesday
- Qdoba
- Schlotsky’s
- Sonic
- Taco Bell
- Wendy’s
And since those family restaurants don’t have nutritional information on their sites, here’s what I could find thanks to other health-conscious consortiums:
- Applebee’s (Calorie-Count.com)
- Chili’s (Calorie-Count.com)
- Olive Garden (Calorie-Count.com)
- TGI Friday’s (DietFacts.com)
And if there are any restaurants I’ve missed, here’s an index of restaurants with links to nutritional info. I guess, in this age of information, I don’t understand why I can’t have the nutritional information from the franchise restaurants I love. It just seems silly that fast food restaurants can have their nutritional info available while these other restaurants don’t. Don’t they know that obesity is an epidemic in this country? Some of us want to go out to dinner prepared for the decision ahead of us, for crying out loud!
