That said, I've always admired Burgerville, Oregon (and Southern Washington's) home-grown fast food chain.
Burgerville goes out of their way to feature seasonal
, local ingredients 
in monthly menu items. When a cyclist was denied drive-through service and caused a Twitter PR ruckus, they re-trained staff, put up "bicycle in lane" signs, and offered free milkshakes to cyclists. When they opened a box of Gardenburgers and "became concerned about the look and texture of the product" (!), this caused Kelloggs to shut down Gardenburger production for six months, and they switched to a locally-made product.So, I was happy to see that Burgerville is now testing the coolest receipt ever. (Pictured at left.)
They're from company called Nutricate (tip: if you have to put a pronunciation guide next to your name, you need a new name). And, as you can see, they provide highly accurate nutritional info for your meal.
I mean, it's not surprising that tartar sauce is high on calories. But it was slightly surprising that Sweet Potato Fries were so much "worse" than regular fries.
Sure, there is some irony that you get this receipt after you've paid for your meal. But I say any nutritional education is better than none at all!
(Oh, and confidential to Burgerville: the only thing left to do? It's time to fix your interior design
and remodel your stores. The sock-hoppy, jukeboxy theme of your restaurants is total disconnect from your modern, local, fresh message. You designed a great interior with Noodlin' (R.I.P.) — get those guys fixing Burgerville!)Next Time: The Disneyland Scammer
Interesting. I just posted a link on my blog to another receipt concept:
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While not in actual production, it shows you how far the food has traveled to reach your mouth. I'd love to see Nutricate add distance into their receipts, but could imagine that being a much trickier set of data to deal with.
Man, that guy is going crazy on those fries.
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant! I really hope Europe (especially UK) picks this up EVERYWHERE. I'm talking everywhere from Starbucks to Restaurants to fast food shops of all kind!
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Hmm, it's interesting technically but as a customer.. I'd just not look at the receipt if they were like this. I'm buying a burger/whatever because I want to eat a burger - not because I want to be told how much of a pig I am by eating XXX calories.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the fast food joints are even volunteering to get into this sort of thing - especially the "calories on the menu" stuff. Once I can't order without seeing calorie listings everywhere, I'll probably stop eating out as it'll just serve to make me feel bad - and that's not why I eat out.
Peter: That's the thing: nobody's saying you're a pig, just that you've consumed XXX calories. If you want to eat 2,000 calories in a day, and you want to blow that in one giant, crazy, joyful meal, why not? Go for it!
ReplyDeleteBut eating a burger, or seeing the calories in a burger, should in no way make you feel bad — unless you're going way over the number of calories you should be consuming in a day (whatever that is), or you know you're being unhealthy. If that's the case, then maybe the sadness of the inarguable printed receipt might be a good thing, right? Helpful towards meeting your goals? :)
It's just information, after all... the interpretation, and what it means in your life, is literally up to you.
Cabel, that's a great find - I wonder how long it will be before it takes off elsewhere? Certainly it provides the same sort of information that we have come to expect on our packaged foods in Australia - I'd like to see the inclusion of sodium but apart from that is is pretty good.
ReplyDeleteBurgerville has a "concept restaurant" in northwest Vancouver that ditches the 50s-diner vibe... for something sort of generically modern (and "green", I suppose) but not really inspiring. That location also has bus service and serves local beers & wines. You know, for if you'd like a nice Cabernet with your onion rings.
ReplyDeleteAlso of note: it's not just the seasonal featured ingredients that are local -- just about everything they serve is sourced from socially & environmentally responsible producers. The trash bins in almost every restaurant are sorted for recycling & composting, and they buy wind power credits for all of their electricity usage (even though most of it is hydro anyway).
No, I don't work for Burgerville, I just think they're the Portland area's best kept secret.
This is interesting, but I fear the teaser for "The Disneyland Scammer" has completely overwhelmed my interest in this note.
ReplyDeleteIn case you didn't see it, your Burgerville receipt was posted in the "A Hamburger Today" blog, along with a link back:
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They have the same style receipts at Silvergreens in Santa Barbara, CA (Isla Vista for those local).
ReplyDeleteI always thought it was a great idea and fairly well executed.
I am fortunate enough to be local to Burgerville, but generally not the MLK location (which is the only one they currently are using Nutricate at), but when in the area a couple months ago and got my receipt that included a kids sized chocolate shake (a tiny thing at 4" tall or so) and saw it's calorie count and then it suggested a chocolate smoothy (made with yogurt instead of ice cream) was about half the calories I since have opted to order a smoothy instead of a shake.
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ReplyDeleteFact: 70 percent of Burgerville's total food budget is spent with LOCAL producers. Sustainability is delicious!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for pimping Burgerville, but also blasting their interior design.
I'm not a big fast foodie either, but once a month I end up in a Burgerville and every time I end up agitated as I'm yelling "Redo the interiors! These make no sense in context with your message!" I've told my wife many times the place needs to look like a freaking Jamba Juice inside to match all their wind/solar/local/sustainable mantras. Turn the lights up, all wood should be maple or birch veneers, put some wood floors in, and make the furniture modern. And ditch the jukebox and instead play Sigor Rios and Hotel Costes tracks non-stop.
I'd rather mistake the place for a yoga studio than a Happy Day's set.
Nobody gives a crap about calories at a fast food store.
ReplyDeleteIf there were more restaurants doing that here in the states it might slim down the population a bit. Kinda weird though about the sweet potato vs. regular fries. I never would have thought it to be a culprit. We eat them raw all the time, so hopefully it's in the cooking.
ReplyDeleteWhy are so many people afraid to see the nutritional value (or not) of what they eat?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe this guy ate two whole meals and a smoothie. No wonder he needs to know this information.
ReplyDeletethat info should have been present in menu itself... don't you think that would have been better for customers... harmful for the restaurant i think ... bcoz no1 will eat if they find it before eating....
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I'm afraid to see how many calories are actually in an order of Walla Walla Onion Rings when they are back in season.
ReplyDeleteCute comment about the Nutricate guys needing a new name if they have to tell you how to say it. But if you think about it, the pronunciation guide is only there to complete the pseudo-dictionary definition, which they apparently included to beat people over the head with their clever coinage. Just as precious.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, the "regular"sweet potato fries are obviously(judging from the carb content) a bigger portion than the "regular" regular fries.....
ReplyDeleteSweet potato fries are very good for health as it contains more fibre than any other breakfast. I think this breakfast is the cool one.
ReplyDeleteThese days, most of the UK chains are pretty good with nutritional information, displaying it in the stores, although the food still sucks. We just don't do fast food well - we import the worst and even screw that up. It's amazing to see the clean, spacious KFC restaurants in, say, Iceland, and compare them to the awful, cramped counter-only equivalent in the UK, which have much worse food. Burgerville looks good, and I rather liked Chick-fil-A last time I was in the US, but I'd bet both would be worse than McDonald's on landing in this country!
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ReplyDeleteThe reason Sweet Potato Fries contain more calories than regular fries is simple - the length of the starch compounds. Under heat, some starch breaks down back into maltodextrose and glucose molecules, which leads to a more porous product that takes a) longer in heat to become a fry and b) unlike the higher water content regular fry, does not expel as much steam, effectively pushing out the cooking fat. Well done fries contain no internal cooking fat, sweet potato fries always do.
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