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"... miniature meals"

Or as we call them in the rest of the world: meals.

https://www.infographicsarchive.com/infographic-serving-size...

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Purely anecdotally, but we had a US team member visit us in the UK and his understanding of food quality was purely driven by size and not quality.

It didn't matter whether it was haute cuisine or grey sludge, if there was lots of it then it was the best meal in the world

Something else for me to apologize about: sorry, average Americans have no taste. There is nothing but greasy spoon garbage where I live. In central London or Paris, I could live on takeout.

Also:

Q1: Was it a Darden-like chain where everything was prepared in a strict, structured manner?

Q2: Was actual tasting involved, or was it simply superficial evaluation of plating?

Q3: Was tasting done in a way to conceal the preparer(s) and/or server(s) to reduce bias?

There's a restaurant chain in Texas called "Cheddar's" that doesn't (or didn't when I saw it last) have any nutritional or serving size information at all, not in restaurants and not online. Just expect all the salt, cream, tallow, HFCS, and heart attacks.

There aren't many restaurant choices around and none are any good.

https://media.cheddars.com/en_us/pdf/Cheddars-Nutrition-Guid...

Like I said in another comment, this was 12-13 years ago.

Cheddars is nationawide and it does have nutritional info on the menu.

Its also kinda ass

Like I said this was years ago, probably 2013, prior to acquisition by Darden and before the internet archive has any records. It was shit then.

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