As evidenced by frequent trips to chain restaurants, Americans want to get fatter, but today’s slumping economy has prevented that from happening.
A recent article has clued us in to the fact that plenty of those restaurants are cutting back on how much bang your waistline gets for your buck. At TGI Friday’s, customers asking for A1 are being given small dabs of the savory sauce instead of a chance to slather their meat entree in the entire bottle. Meanwhile at Chili’s the guiltless chicken sandwich only comes with one side instead of two, though it remains the same price. The biggest perpetrators of culinary crime against humanity might just be the Olive Garden, as one diner recounts:
“…A couple days ago, I went to an Olive Garden with my fiance. When we were having dinner I asked if they could bring us another basket of bread. The waitress brought the bread basket to the table and when I looked there were only two breadsticks in the bread basket. Before they would serve five at a time.”
HORROR (though you may have noticed said diner had no complaint about anything lacking with the never-ending salad bowl part of her meal). In our estimation, getting three bacon mini-cheeseburgers instead of four with your appetizer at Chili’s isn’t half bad. Just think, the extra money being spent is less than you’d have to pay for that personal trainer (and if all else fails, remember that there are starving children in Ethiopia who never get to demand extra ketchup for their fries). Stay strong America!
