Revisiting: Calorie Counts on Receipts?
Four years ago, I tossed out a suggestion that I’d love to see.
Back then, I wished quick service food places like McDonald’s, Burger King, and similar, would print calorie counts on their receipts to make people aware of just how many calories they are buying.
Right now, I’m not seeing anyone doing that, which is rather depressing.
It’s not about getting the data into the computers, either — I mean, holy boats, the data’s usually up on their respective websites.
All I want to see is a single row that reads:
“This order has at least xxxx calories.”
Season it up any way you’d like, but the calorie count would be nice to see on the receipt.
If you really want to be pedantic, break it down further, and list it per meal on the order, but even the overall number is good.
Using ‘at least’ would be ideal, because people like to add things after the order, like ketchup, special sauce, and whatnot.
Am I alone in wanting to see this actually happen?
I like that idea. They should put all the nutrition facts that are on everything at the grocery store. I don’t eat out that much anymore but I’d go look just out of curiosity.
I’d love to see nutrition data proposed in a better method.
Ever been to a grocery store that has your email address on file? (Some stores with the reward card systems have that logged).
I’d think it’d be a nice idea to offer an opt-in service that will email you something that gives you an idea of what’s there in your groceries, nutritionally. eg: Buy some oatmeal, get nutritional suggestions that include things like honey or sugar being added to oatmeal, or fruit being added, stuff like this.
It’d have to be opt-in, since people whine about this otherwise, but it would go a long way to put things like this in people’s faces.