Eateries are not leaving a single stone unturned to get away from calorie-laden charges of nutritional advocates and healthy-flavorful choices of customers. The latest attempt in this direction is reported to be The Healthy Dining Finder, launched by National Restaurant Association, America, which is scheduled to go online with complete nutritional information of four to 12 healthiest dishes at restaurants in a community, in the first quarter of January 2007. Facts provide that this website will not only be transparent about the nutritional content, but the texture, flavor, preparation and the practical details of food.
Though it is good to have a website to make details about a food available to its consumers, yet it is to the least practical in nature. The stupendous demand of nutritional advocates for a website might not be in anyway catering to why people eat out. The busy lifestyle of diners makes them eat out quite often and this does not spare them with much time to go online punching town or ZIP code and search for restaurants by cuisine, price range and nutrition.
Dining out is oft reported to be an unplanned activity and so is the food that they are going to eat. This website more or less calls for diners making an online check of the food that they are going to eat the next day or hour, much of a habit. What appeals is the refuting provision created by Au Bon Pain bakeries, Applebee and Subway expanding ordering time to include the details of the food to be served.
Therefore on-the-spot information about foods to be served at a particular point of time serves large interests of diners rather than a website, which cannot guarantee transparency to the diners sometimes about a particular food or cuisine.
