Entries Tagged 'Restaurants' ↓
May 19th, 2010 — Diet, Health and Wellness, Restaurants
Several studies have shown that people eat faster and leave sooner when loud music is playing — so restaurants have been turning up the volume to increase flow-through.And this isn’t the only tactic restaurants use. Diners seated at tables in the middle of the room tend to be less comfortable and eat faster. The same holds true for uncomfortable chairs.
They also want you to eat more as well as faster. Warm colors — like red, orange and yellow — stimulate the need to eat.
CNN reports that:
“On hectic nights, the reservationist at Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto in New York City will inform diners that they need the table back in 90 minutes for the next party.If you lurk over your digestif too long, chef Cesare Casella will place your name on Salumeria’s ‘no salami’ list.”
Sources:
CNN April 30, 2010
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this article.
Your Personal Trainer in Whittier,
Eric Bravo.
February 2nd, 2010 — Diet, Health and Wellness, Nutrition & Supplements, Restaurants
Ewww. Well you really shouldn’t be drinking soda anyways. Pass this on.
A recent study has revealed that a full 48 percent of soda fountains at fast food restaurants contain coliform bacteria — a bacteria that grows in feces. Eleven percent also contained E. Coli.
Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms found included Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. Most of the identified bacteria showed resistance to one or more of 11 antibiotics tested.
While there have been few certified outbreaks over in the last ten years related to soda fountains, many incidents of food poisoning go unreported.
Sources:
Treehugger January 7, 2010
Int J Food Micro 2009
Always looking out,
Your Personal Trainer
in Whittier, Eric B.
