Meet Burgerville's Awesome New Nutritional Info Receipt
We love the idea of Northwestern chain Burgerville's new receipts that feature nutritional information—not just calorie counts, but also the amount of fiber, fat, and carbohydrates in each item of your order, as well as the order as a whole. Now, here's one of the receipts as spotted out in the wild.
We like the breakdown by meal, the feature showing the fat and calorie savings when leaving off toppings, and also the feature that shows how this meal fits into a 2,000 or 2,500 calorie diet.
The Best Fast Food Receipt [CABEL'S BLOG LOL] (Thanks, Josh!)
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I like the ad on the bottom of the receipt. Side note, I'm shocked how many more calories the sweet potato fries have over the regular ones. I would have thought it was the other way around. I guess the sweet potato fries have to be cooked longer, and soak up more fat.
That is amazingly cool. This makes me want to drive to wherever a Burgerville is and order RIGHT NOW.
Which is probably like 800+ miles away.
I want to see this become a legal requirement.
@B: Sweet potatoes have a lot of sugar in them naturally, which is where i'm guessing the calories come from.
That's fantastic; but a readout as your order might be better :)
@katstermonster: Yeah. My sisters both live in Portland, and taunt me with the awesome of Burgerville.
@Anachronism: It's a really great chain, but they're only in the Portland, OR area. The food's good, and they're also really environmentally conscious, focusing on getting local ingredients and having special menu items that feature whatever is in season in the area.
I live in NJ, but my grandparents live in Portland, so I get to have it about once a year.
Just great! Another victim of ObamaCare! (If this post doesn't make sense to you, congrats, you don't watch Fox News.)
I see my "skip the fries" rule is a good idea!
Cool concept, but isn't it a little late to see the calories after you've ordered?
Wouldn't it have taken up less space by simply putting:
"You are at a fast food restaurant, it is all bad for you."
Personally, if I made it to the counter and suddenly discovered the gravy fries with extra cheese were bad for me, I do not think I would turn around and head to the nearest salad bar. Just my opinion of course.
@B: Yeah - I was a bit stunned by the numbers. I wish we knew the portion sizes those were for, I'm quite curious.
Maybe they ought to wait and give you the receipt after you've finished eating. This is one of those times when timing is everything and putting the nutritional information on the receipt is a fail.
They have these same receipts in the cafeteria at my office, same Nutricate thing. Problem is, 80% of the time they list no info and tell you to look at their website... which doesn't have it either.
As someone who actively counts calories in order to lose weight, I'm very annoyed at how difficult it is to find such information. I find myself guessing far too often because it's just not available.
MMMM... I miss Burgerville! It was the hang out in the Oregon town where I grew up. Gimme a double-beef cheesburger puhleeeeeeze!
i would like this to be everywhere. if i was eating this entire order [although it looks like food for two people] i would be able to look at my receipt, do a little addition and know to give myself 63.8 units of insulin.
instead of:
a) asking for nutritional info and figuring it out [i know, easy, but not as easy as being on the receipt]
b) having to request the nutritional info, find out they don't have any, drive with my food back to my office or home and then look up the info on their website while my food gets cold.
c) [what i usually do] plan where i want to eat, decide on my menu item, look it up before going and hope they aren't out of anything i want
d) discover there is no nutritional info available and guess
e) bring the stupid carb counting book with me and hope that the restaurant didn't change their menu items or ingredients list in the last year or so.
@B: Sweet potatoes have more sugars, but more vitamins and good stuff as well. That's why they get thought of as being healthier, but if like me you need to be careful about carbs, you're better off with a regular potato and getting those vitamins elsewhere. Or no potato at all but that's hardly fun.
I have almost no sweet tooth so I find sweet potatoes to be gross anyway, but my kid loves 'em.
I would eat more often at a restaurant that did this, although obviously still in moderation. But if I was choosing between two equivalent burger joints and one had this and the other didn't, I'd choose the one that made my life more informed.
The regular french fries is a 5oz portion, more or less.
I'm pretty sure the sweet potato fries are a similar portion size (just from eyeballing it), but Burgerville doesn't have the oz list on their website for those they way they do the regular fries.
This capability gives their company a competitive advantage against other similar restaurants. People that aren't watching their consumption aren't negatively affected by more information, so it's likely they'll bring in more business than what they would lose from listing it. Best of all, none of this was mandated or legislated, the company just chose to do it because they felt they would do better with that information clearly listed. That's awesome. I'd do more business with a place that provided me with more data for sure.
Yay Capitalism!
@Anachronism: "I want to see this become a legal requirement."
Boo. You really want to throw people in jail for not listing nutritional information on a receipt? Sounds harsh.
Having Burgerville's almost makes up for the lack of In-N-Out's. :) Almost.
@ChunkyBarf: It's still fine in moderation. Treating yourself to fast food once or twice a month wont hurt you.
In this case I'd love the receipt combined with a little Orwellian behaviour - create a membership scam where regulars (sadly, I love my quarter pounders which immediately includes me) can track how much they've actually eaten at the restaurant across all the chains.
It becomes harder when one person places multiple orders, but something smooth can be done.
Would also give you the chance to see your caloric intake drop once you see what crap you are actually eating after all these years.
I would be driving there right now if it werent 11:14 pm and they close at 11pm :(
+1 for burgerville
What kind of weird world is this when healthy things like "fish" and "turkey" are WORSE FOR YOU then the chocolate shake?
Like it, would like it more if I saw it before hand... and if the drink wasn't left out.
But that's just the problem, we DRINK a lot of our calories these days. I think soda fountains should have a little display counting up the calories as the high-fructose infused water pours forth. They could add Vegas-style coin sounds to really drive the point home.
S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M!!!
WOW friggin awesome! I can just imagine how seldom I would eat out of I saw this. Seriously a cool idea.
@nakkypoo: I agree and I used to be a heavy soda drinker. I then went to Coffee with Stevia sweetener and water. My conversion from soda to zero calorie drinks netted no change in my weight or health with no other changes.
@nakkypoo: It's a self-serve drink though, so they don't know if you're getting high fructose infused water, aspartame (or sucralose) infused water, or just iced tea.
@B: Sweet potatoes/yams, no matter how they are prepared, have more calories than similarly prepared regular potatoes. They also have more vitamins and fiber. And they are delicious, which doesn't hurt.
Dear Burgerville...The East Coast is actually a pretty swell place! Come and have a look.
Exactly how do the make a Reg Choc Monk Smoothie?
I get the chocolate part, but it's got to be awful hard to cram a Monk into a blender. Do they chop him up first?
Oh great! And i thought those annoying 2 mile long receipts were bad enough.
@TheFlamingoKing: With requirements come concessions, like perhaps a tax credit towards getting the necessary programming in a new register system. I think its great, especially the part where you see how nixing the tartar sauce can save you a ton of fat/calories.
@JackHack: It's not just sugars in this case, since the sweet potato fries have 9 more grams of fat (more than 50% higher than the regular fries), which is, I believe, 81 calories right there.
@outlulz: And this is absolutely tailored to the order, including the deduction from skipping the tartar sauce. For people planning their daily consumption of stuff, this is idea.
@Oranges w/ Cheese needs guidance: They're not worse for you, though. They're higher in calories. Those are very different things.
@floraposte: Uh, actually it does; by definition, even. I think you mean "not doing it is a jailable offense".
@varro: Then how do you explain the video in a sweaty McDonaldland hotel room with a prostitute and two packets of ketchup-flavoured crack?
This is so cool! Me likey. Too bad there isn't a Burgerville even REMOTELY close to me...