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Boston Market said in a statement that it will have salt shakers available at a condiment station, but that this change will prompt customers to taste their food first before automatically putting more salt on.
The restaurant is also going down the path of other restaurants in lowering sodium levels. Signature items -- mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese and rotisserie chicken -- will get a 20 percent decrease in sodium, while other menu items will get a 15 percent decrease in sodium by 2014, Boston Market said in the statement.
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY....about time. High levels of Sodium are not good for persons although many don't believe that.
To tell you about what can happen with a salt shaker at a restaurant:
I was an executive at a large company for 30 years. It was our hiring policy to take a potential hire out to eat. If the candidate salted his/her food without tasting the food first, he/she was automatically disqualified. The basis for this decision is that the person assumed the food needed salt without trying it first.....in business one can't progress on assumptions alone. This salting candidate appears to make hasty and arbitrary decisions and also one who would most likely not analyze before making decisions in business. A good candidate will test the waters and eat first and then salt if not seasoned right - a sign of a person who will test first and analyze before accepting the challenges to discover their way through business.
But at any restaurant, don't let the chef see you salt his food. That would be an insult upon the chef. LOL
Ted's Montana Grill no longer butters the burger buns before toasting them. Also smart!
As someone who can't stand butter on his bread (I was going to say buns) I wish more restaurants would do this. So many places automatically assume everyone wants buttered bread.
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As someone who can't stand butter on his bread (I was going to say buns) I wish more restaurants would do this. So many places automatically assume everyone wants buttered bread.
Well, truthfully, I never knew that it was butter that they were using on the hamburger bun. All I knew was that there was HUGE flavor to it. When I was told that it was butter, then I knew that there was HUGE fat to it. So we starting telling them to "hold the butter." When we went a few days ago -- and hadn't been there for a year -- and asked them to NOT put butter on the bun before toasting, the waitress told us, "Oh, we don't do that anymore!"
I'm hoping that enough people were telling them to hold the butter... or that they became health-aware on their own.
PS. I love butter.
PPS. JACK BUTTERS HIS BUNS!!!!!!!!!!!! Errr, no, he does NOT butter his buns. Sorry.
Well the title is somewhat misleading but anyway...... Good for them, I haven't seen salt or pepper shakers fast food restaurants in years. Yes I consider Boston Market fast food. Admittedly I haven't been to a Boston market since the 1990's.
I remember my parents taking the salt shaker off our kitchen table back in the 1970's and my grandfather had a stoke. That's when they stopped using lard as well in just about everything.
I brought lard back into style in my family, only the non-hydrogenated leaf type though in limited quanities.
I'm not a salt user but many others in my family are and have no need to watch their salt intake because it's not out of control.....before the slamming begins, this is straight from their doctor's mouths. That's between the doctor and their patients.
I have no problem with places reducing their salt usage...I might eat out more if they do but......
I don't see why they can't have salt readily available for them. Just because a salt shaker is available doesn't mean one has to use it.
Nanny state is ringing in me head at the moment.
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY....about time. High levels of Sodium are not good for persons although many don't believe that.
To tell you about what can happen with a salt shaker at a restaurant:
I was an executive at a large company for 30 years. It was our hiring policy to take a potential hire out to eat. If the candidate salted his/her food without tasting the food first, he/she was automatically disqualified. The basis for this decision is that the person assumed the food needed salt without trying it first.....in business one can't progress on assumptions alone. This salting candidate appears to make hasty and arbitrary decisions and also one who would most likely not analyze before making decisions in business. A good candidate will test the waters and eat first and then salt if not seasoned right - a sign of a person who will test first and analyze before accepting the challenges to discover their way through business.
But at any restaurant, don't let the chef see you salt his food. That would be an insult upon the chef. LOL
I don't see why they can't have salt readily available for them. Just because a salt shaker is available doesn't mean one has to use it.
But there will be a salt shaker available, on the condiment table. They just won't be on every dining table.
Sorry, but I can remember a time when ashtrays were on most restaurant tables, and we seem to have adjusted pretty well as a culture to their absence.
At least it's not as inconvenient to the customers as what they used to do at historic Smitty's Market BBQ (the original Kreuz Market) on the old Chisholm Trail in Lockhart, Texas, where they only had one knife to be shared by all the customers for cutting up their sausages... and it was on a chain!
Sorry, but I can remember a time when ashtrays were on most restaurant tables, and we seem to have adjusted pretty well as a culture to their absence.
Usually I let this stuff go but I have to ask......smoking/ashtrays has what to do with salt shakers again?
Are you comparing smoking to salt usage? I'm confused.
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