American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up

Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by w0utert on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:40AM (#17960101)

I've not seen this in many places, actually. I also don't think it would really work for me, as I would never be able to guess whether a half-portion wouldn't be less than I wanted to eat.

It would be so much easier if it was just what I'm used to here: if you just order food, you'll get enough for a 'normal' eater. You can always go bigger or smaller, depending on if you are a 'big eater' or not. The default in the US seems to be that the size of the standard order needs to satisfy a giant construction worker who hasn't eaten for two days.

I remember ordering blueberry pancakes for breakfast once, and got a pile a that was almost a foot high. Even though the pancakes were actually pretty good, I think I finished less then 1/4th of them. That just makes no sense.

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Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:42AM (#17960115)

The food is the smaller part of the cost - think about the brick-and-mortar, the employees waiting for us to come in and order, the insurance etc. A little flour and canned blueberries is peanuts. So by offering 'too much food' there's a perceived value by some

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Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by w0utert on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:50AM (#17960209)

Well yes of course, I understand the psychological tricks restaurants use to increase 'perceived value'. That doesn't mean I agree with them though, or that it makes the food any better. Maybe I'm atypical, but for me it actually decreases the value, because I know I will feel stuffed before my plate is empty, and my last memory of eating the food will be that I could hardly stomach any more of it before I stopped eating. This is not even considering the moral objections I have against throwing away perfectly good food, as someone else above me already mentioned as well.

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Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:54AM (#17960247)

My local pancake house will sometimes have 'all you can eat' which means a modest serving with the option to order additional food at the same cost. Of course I never need any more, and that way no waste! And the same perceived value or better. Probably a much better solution.

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