I'm with sadistikdreams in the thinking that it's not the restaurant's responsibility to keep you from becoming the next Jabba the Hut.
I think people patronize fast-food joints because they
want something greasy, fattening, and quick. Those businesses should rightly cater to their customers' demands instead of trying to change them.
Turns out that this "health trend" was no more than a failed advertising attempt that likely had more to do with said documentary backlash than with contributing to the collective weight-loss of fast-food consumers.
August 18th Washington Post article.
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McDonald's has won much praise for adding healthful menu items, but only a tiny fraction of customers order them. The fast-food giant promotes the fact that it has sold 400 million premium salads since they were introduced more than two years ago, but that number is dwarfed by the chain's total customer count. McDonald's serves 23 million people a day in the United States alone, or roughly 16.8 billion people in the past two years — meaning just 2.4 percent of customers have ordered salads since they were added to the menu."The most popular item on our menu continues to be the double cheeseburger, hands down," said company spokesman Bill Whitman.
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