Fatburgr Collects Restaurant Nutritional For Easy Reference
Riley writes, "I remember seeing a couple of articles about restaurant nutrition information awhile back (ie the 2008 Ultimate Fast Food Nutrition Guide) and was motivated to create a site that houses nutrition information for chain restaurants across the country." The result is Fatburgr, where you can quickly look up info by restaurant or food type.
You can get this info yourself from many corporate websites, but we like that it's all in one place. We especially like that there's an iPhone version of the site to make it easy to look up info when you're actually at a restaurant. Most iPhone formatted sites have worked just fine on my past 3 Nokia phones, so give it a try even if you don't have an iPhone. (You can test drive the iPhone version below.)
So far there's info on these 20 restaurants, but Riley says he's trying to add one per day.
- Arby's
- Burger King
- Carl's Jr.
- Chick-fil-A
- Chili's
- Church's Chicken
- In-N-Out Burger
- Jack In The Box
- Jimmy John's
- KFC
- Krispy Kreme
- Long John Silver's
- McDonald's
- Pei Wei
- Popeyes
- Schlotzsky's
- Sonic
- Subway
- Wendy's
- Whataburger
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I'll definitely make regular use of this if some more fast food joints available in Canada are added.
can't look... it's too depressing
I chill at White Castle, 'cause it's the best
Are these places any worse than, say, the Olive Garden or other chain restaurants which seemingly offer more wholesome food?
Even places like Subway which advertise food on the health side have some waistbusters.
It's great that this site adds the weight watcher points. That makes for a simple cross reference which is credible.
Wait a minute.. it's called Fatburgr but yet they don't have nutrition information from Fatburger? [fatburger.com]
@crazyasianman: It's gross. So many chemicals, preservatives, and additives... Bah. Not to mention the sodium, saturated fat, trans fats, and partially hydrogenated what's-its. The title of this article is misleading - there's no 'healthy eating' at these places. It's not even food. It's a science experiment.
I'll buy some quality meat at the grocery store and cook my own burger, thanks. Better than eating a chemistry set.
@metsarethe...: You are missing out on a life experience. It's almost worth moving back to California for....
@GC: I was noticing that too...let's see how long it takes before Fatburger sends them a cease & desist.
@downwithmonstercable: was wondering about a cease and desist myself. And this trademark *is* similar and easily confused. They're both about food and my first thought was "why on earth is a fast-food restaurant telling people about fat content?"
@metsarethe...: No, you're really not. I have a friend who speaks of it like it's the Second Coming, but it's really just another burger place. It's enjoyable but not that special.
@metsarethe...: Great stuff briefly, but it gets old fast. I haven't been to one in several years and going back has zero attraction.
Heh, yeah. I thought "Fatburgr" was a typo or something. Until I saw it a second time, at least.
That might not end well. xD
Just want to say the nutrition calculator on the Taco Bell site is awesome. You can choose a selection to make a meal right down to the number of sauce packets and get all the info for your meal.
Hope they add Red Robin simply because RR refused to disclose the info.
From: [fatburgr.com]
"We at Fatburgr are reasonable people. If we can't find nutrition information regarding a particular restaurant, we try to contact said restaurant. A restaurant makes it to our wall of shame if they don't reply, or if they send us a soulless copy-and-paste PR statement.
The following restaurants do not publish nutrition information regarding their menu items.*
*They also kick puppies for distance."
Name issues notwithstanding, can you seriously say that ("They also kick puppies for distance") and not expect a suit?
Speaking of which, I was at Black Angus today (birthday coupon) and besides the regular menus now, they also bring a nutritional fact sheet now, though I was surprised their ranch dressing had less calories than vinaigrette dressing and that their clam chowder had less calories than their steak soup.
Isn't this copyright infringement on the actual Fatburger franchise? I smell a lawsuit...
For those of you with an iPod Touch, and limited connectivity to the Internet (based on whether you can get some WiFi or not), there's a free App called Restaurants, and it has 39 different restaurant nutritional guides.
Though I certainly give Fatburgr props, and they do have a few that the Restaurants app doesn't, such as Jimmy Johns (oh how I miss the Pepe), Krispy Kreme, Popeyes, and Whataburger.
@Canino: Qdoba has a burrito builder that very similar, it is depressing how many calories are in my pulled port BBQ.
Also, I have never had in-and-out, but Five Guys has an awesome burger, best in my opinion.
@FrugalFreak: That's so shady. I stopped eating at Red Robin the third time I ordered the guacamole burger and substituted the beef for a veg burger and they didn't make the change. This was always IN the restaurant with specific instructions to the server and small talk about my lifestyle. Sending the meat back to be (likely) thrown out defeats the purpose of being a vegetarian.
@Jupichan: Don't you know that dropping the 'e' before the ending 'r' is the new prepending 'i' in front of the name?
@Canino: Red Robin also has an awesome nutritional calculator. You can customize your burger, sides, and anything else in the meal.
@mgermano: I agree! Five guys is perfection. But I only think that because its mostly burger grease.
Although... I'm not a fan of peanuts and it's hard to miss that smell when you're there.
@krunk4ever: Makes one wonder what sort of processed culinary voodoo goes into the ranch dressing, as a vinaigrette's source of calories is usually only the oil.
Man, dropping the "e" before an "r" is so 2008.
Man, I love Fatburger restaurants, way better than In-n-Out. You can ask them to put a fried egg on your burger.
Yeah, fatburgr.com will have to change it's name soon.
The one restaurant I want some semi-reliable nutritional info for? TGI Fridays.
@Justin S. Johnson: Yes you can say that because it is humor and one of the few good things about USA tight now is that humor is still protected under the law.
@metsarethe...: My husband was born and raised in Cali and he moved to Ohio when he was 22. He's now 30 and still talks about that place.
What's up with all the left out letters? "nutrion" at "fatburgr" what ever happened to spllcheck?
I have to say my first In-N-Out burger was a bit underwhelming. And so was the second. I don't understand the hype. They're good but not that much better than the rest of the fast food chains. Living in NYC, I have come to really appreciate restaurants having to put all the calories on the menus. I thought it was a bit heavy handed by government but it's extremely useful. When I'm in the mood for that Mocha and Muffin from Starbuck's, seeing that the two together are 1200 calories, helps my decision to get the skinny latte and almonds a little easier to make. But it still sucks!!!!
There is already an application for this on the iphone/ipod touch called Restaurants. It has data on restaurants not listed in fatburgr.
@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected: Ugh, fatburger is awful. We have a few around seattle... terrible. I've been there a few times, always thinking maybe I'll give it another chance...never fails to disappoint
Like the idea and the ease. Wise it had customizable options such as "Without Mayo". I know that is more work but you would be surprised how much calories you save by taking out something that doesn't add much to the item.
@metsarethe...: I believed absolutely everything in the Iron Man movie was credible... except that when Stark escaped from captivity and returned to California craving a hamburger, he went to Burger King not In'n'Out. That was the most jarring moment for me.
@metsarethe...: It's probably one of the best fast food burger places. Up there with Whataburger.
But it is by no means "almost worth moving back to California for."
@czetie: Actually Robert Downey Jr said the reason he threw in the BK reference in the movie was because what helped convince him to get clean was after he was so wasted one night he went to a really nasty BK and ate what he said was the most awful burger he ever had, and he never wanted to do that again.
Sadly I have yet to expereince an In-N-Out burger and I hear I'm missing out big time