J. David Anderson wrote:
|| Roger Zoul wrote:
||
||
|||||| The moral of the story is: don't buy the Fajita Salad at IHOP.
|||||| Their omelets are fine, even if you do have to throw away the 3
|||||| pancakes they put with the omelet.
|||||
||||| Why not just order the omelette without the pancakes?
|||||
||||| And, I wouldn't even have been here if it hadn't been for
|||||| my elderly mother--it seems the elderly love IHOP.
|||||
||||| Then you made her happy; wasn't that why you went there?
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|||||
||||| The complaints that you have with the restaurant are not
||||| necessarily things that other *dieters* would regard as a problem.
|||||
||||| This seems an unusual newsgroup to air a complaint about not being
||||| served enough food. Oversized portions are what led to many of the
||||| people on this newsgroup gaining weight.
|||
||| Why do you assume that the meal would have been oversized?
||
|| I didn't. Why do presume that I did?
Because you wrote:
||||| The complaints that you have with the restaurant are not
||||| necessarily things that other *dieters* would regard as a problem.
This implies that a dieter (which, BTW, the OP is not) would or could not be
upset with a portion size. It is possible to get a lot of lettuce in a meal
but still be cheated on the protein, without the portion being oversized. I
frequently find that in some establishments if you buy a salad, you get a
[censored] of lettuce and not even a couple of oz of chicken, for example.
IMO, those are ripoffs.
||
|| I commented on the change in style of complaint, usually the
|| complaints
|| on diet related groups have to do with oversizing.
I disagree. I've been here a long time and most dieters know that they must
control portion intake to lose weight. The size of a serving in a restaurant
has almost nothing to do with obesity - that is generally the result of
people simply eating too much.
||
|| Not all places
||| serve oversized portions, and the dish as very little chicken on it
||| and a lot of lettuce. Why do you assume that one must get cheated
||| in order to avoid excess?
||
|| I didn't assume anything of the sort. Why would serving a meal with
|| portion sizes smaller than expected be "cheating"? There is no
|| standard size for meals. Any business that "cheated" as a matter of
|| course, particularly one relying on repeat custom, would hardly
|| survive. They in all likelihood have a great many other customers
|| who are quite happy
|| with the quality and size of their meals.
||
That's nonsense and you know it. If you order a meal at a restaurant, there
are expectations based on how much people typically eat and how much they
spend for it. How else would there be a notion of "oversized" portions.
Why do you think the OP is saying don't order this meal at IHOP? That is
what causes a business to lose business. Geez.
|| There can be a wide range in portion sizes among restaurants,
|| particularly the better quality restaurants. Many of the fast food
|| restaurants do serve exceptionally large portion sizes, a commonly
|| accepted problem, recognised from Federal Government levels down.
|| This restaurant was fast food, not a la Carte, that makes it unusual
|| for it
|| to serve small portions.
What is considered an oversized portion depends on who is sitting before it.
Restaurants have to cater to people of many sizes, with many different
activity levels, and vast differences in age, so the issue is not as nearly
as simple as that.
||
|| As I said before, perhaps they are accepting responsibility and
|| reducing portion sizes. Even McDonald's (Australia) has publicly
|| added smaller portions to its menus. A great many people who are
|| used to the very
|| large portion sizes are going to be complaining as more fast food
|| outlets start reducing portions. A great many more will accept that
|| it
|| is a necessary step in reducing obesity.
[censored]! It is not the responsibility of any restaurant to try to reduce
portion sizes. It is the responsibility of those eating there to limit how
much they eat, as well as what they eat. No restaurant can force anyone to
eat a portion that is too large. I've been out with many normal weight
people who simply take the part they can't eat home if it is too big. Put
the blame for obesity in the right place. No one makes me eat too much and
no one controls what I eat - aside from me.
