Nutrition & Diet

Calories, allergens, halal and vegan status, and ordering around a restriction.

8 guides

Menu data is the only honest way to answer diet questions, because it is the same data the kitchen works from. These guides cover calorie labelling rules, allergen declarations, halal and vegetarian certification, and how to build a workable order inside a chain menu rather than around it.

Nutrition & Diet

Eating Vegetarian and Vegan at Chain Restaurants

The reliable meat-free options are rarely the ones with the plant-based branding. Where to look on a board, and the two questions that decide everything.

3 min read · 697 words
Nutrition & Diet

Ordering Better at a Chain Restaurant

Not a list of virtuous salads. The four structural changes that make the biggest difference to any order, at any chain, in any market.

3 min read · 659 words
Nutrition & Diet

Salt Is the Quiet Problem in Chain Food

Sodium gets less attention than calories, is harder to see, and is arguably the more consequential number. Why chain food is salty by design.

3 min read · 670 words
Nutrition & Diet

Feeding Children at Chain Restaurants

Changing the default side and drink did more for children's meals than any campaign. What is available now, and what to ask for that is not advertised.

3 min read · 658 words

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