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Chains and Nutrition (or Lack Thereof)
Jan. 6th, 2011 02:09 pmFor my fellow Weight Watcher (and like-minded) folk:
The list is woefully incomplete mostly due to the fact that business won't do anything unrelated to a profit motive unless government puts a gun to its head. Barring some regulation requiring chains to provide this info, the best thing would be for someplace like Weight Watchers to lean on them. After all, places with nutritional information will have an advantage over those that do not. I imagine that's the rational for the companies that did provide the information.
Another interesting thing that the article points out? About half the fast-food vendors in any particular Canadian mall are actually owned by one company.
The Vancouver Sun "Fatabase" was compiled with the online nutritional information of 65 chain restaurants represented in British Columbia.Source. The Fatabase is just the thing for calculating PointsPlus values. I love me some Memphis Blues (or the Calgary equivalent, Big T's), but they have a point - it ain't diet food.
Another 50 chains with a presence in BC were not included, either because they don't provide nutritional information to customers online, the information was presented in a format that made it difficult for us to include, or because the company in question has no online presence to speak of.
Some of those companies gave good reasons why they don't offer nutritional information - or were at least honest about it.
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Memphis Blues BBQ House doesn't provide nutritional information, but told us that's because "nobody in their right mind would consider barbeque as diet food."
The list is woefully incomplete mostly due to the fact that business won't do anything unrelated to a profit motive unless government puts a gun to its head. Barring some regulation requiring chains to provide this info, the best thing would be for someplace like Weight Watchers to lean on them. After all, places with nutritional information will have an advantage over those that do not. I imagine that's the rational for the companies that did provide the information.
Another interesting thing that the article points out? About half the fast-food vendors in any particular Canadian mall are actually owned by one company.
