Yes I saw the counts today on the breakfast menu in New York City. Being a silly man, who is easily prone to violating the independence of irrelevant alternatives, I immediately searched for the item with the highest calorie count (it involved butter and lobster, for breakfast). I thought "no way will I get that" and ordered a bagel with lox and cream cheese. Yes, I know about anchoring and behavioral economics. Is not one equilibrium that every restaurant puts an especially high calorie item on its menu, so that people feel virtuous in ordering something else?
The paleo diet guys, as well as the remaining atkins folks, would have gone with the lobster.
Depends on how the diner judges high calorie — versus everything else on the menu or versus some set daily intake or versus a general knowledge of caloric values for similar foods or…
Nice idea.
The only bagels worth eating are Montreal bagels. Everything else just tastes like Wonderbread to me.
Perhaps there should be a column with the calories per cent ratio so we can be sure that you are getting the most calories for the minimum price. That is, if we are going to begin consuming food on a calorie basis only.
Well, restaurants put one really expensive entree on the menu deliberately to boost sales of their second most expensive items…
What’s wrong with lobster and butter?
And then, as John suggests, there are people like me who love the calorie counts so we can find the most caloric item on the menu. The big problem with American restaurants is how tiny all the portions are…
(I’m going to starve to death studying in England next year, aren’t I?)
Sal, that’s the sad part; I’m not. I estimate my diet, during the school year when dance is in season, at somewhere between four and five thousand calories a day. And even before I started dancing I ate a lot; at this point, the Cheesecake Factory is one of maybe five restaurants that serves portions I would really consider a full meal. (When the dining halls aren’t open I mostly make up the difference with weightlifters’ protein smoothies). So I’m also dead serious about looking through the menu for the item with the highest calorie count. And about the fact that, if British portions are noticeably smaller than American ones, I’m going to have to start double-ordering. Or find a date who doesn’t manage to finish her portions on her own…
There is a posh restaurant in Harare, may be not these days actually. But there used to be.
When you went there they used to give the man a menu with prices and the lady a menu with a calorie count. Just a tad sexist perhaps?
Cliff, I agree. But when I’m with my parents we don’t keep food in the house, so I have to get my full meal from the restaurant. Also, I don’t drink anything but water and I almost never have dessert; what I’m really trying to maximize is calories-from-protein, but that’s a bit harder. I order the largest dishes so that I’m not miserably hungry by the time I go to bed.
When I’m not with my parents, as now, I’m eating largely to minimize cost as well. During the year, that means eating whatever crap the dining hall wants to serve. Right now I’m mostly eating fruit, oatmeal, and fruit-whey protein shakes. Plus lots of noodles-in-a-bowl for my twenty-minute lunch breaks at work. I’m well aware of the fact that my diet during the year leaves something to be desired; but my options are limited when I have no kitchen and no car.
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