Oh, I had to laugh at Swiss Chalet's menu that came in the mail today....

[Lynn49]

Being a large chain, they now have to post the calorie counts of their dinners, so what did they do?

Smoke and mirrors..at least for me:

2 can dine for $15.99, includes 2 quarter chicken legs with sides.
In small print below: Quarter chicken dinner (430-1100 calories, serves 2)

So...in order to have the 430 calories I have to share my quarter chicken dinner?!
Or am I reading that wrong?
Some people care about those things when they're eating out.

Other items: all have a calorie range depending on the "side" you order, so you still don't
have an accurate count. Is the mashed potato side less calories than the buttery rice side?
For a range of classic burger, cal range 570-1240, how are we to know how many calories
we're adding to that burger when we choose a side, unless the wait staff can provide that info?

Now personally I don't care: if I'm out for dinner somewhere I'm not worrying about calories, or, sillier still, nutritional counts.

Imho if someone wants each menu item to include the salt, fat, etc counts: eat at home.

[Natalka]

Instore, they probably have all calorie counts for each item.

Here's the online guide

https://www.swisschalet.com/images/n...tion_Guide.pdf

We don't have SC, sure wish we did!

What dieticians recommend to eat there

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04...n_7070836.html

[Ciel]

I find it best to check the counts online on the website-fast food places won't necessarily have the information available unless HQ provides locations with a tiny printed brochure. This especially applies to McDonald's-remember how the tray liners used to list some of the popular product calorie counts or the locations had the little guides?

I checked the calorie counts of Starbucks baked goodies-they all seem to be 350 cal or lower.

All the lines of print in an ad costs money, so a range covers the company's adherence to the Ontario law requiring the display of caloric info.

[Lynn49]

Instore, they probably have all calorie counts for each item.

Here's the online guide

https://www.swisschalet.com/images/n...tion_Guide.pdf

We don't have SC, sure wish we did!

What dieticians recommend to eat there

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04...n_7070836.html

No SC there, Nat? Gosh, hard to believe....It's been years since we've been there, and frankly whenever we dine out I could care less about any calorie and nutrition counts.
I recall in our "youth", when my DH was teaching, he attended Queens University for a summer course, took his motorcycle back and forth (and you must know how excited I was about THAT choice! Not!)...anyway, he had to keep bringing back the SC sauce because we didn't have one here...big containers of it, lol...poor critter. Ah.....to be young again....

[walkonby]

I had no idea SC was not out West? Gosh imo there are way too many of them here.

[Natalka]

There could be out west, just not in Saskatoon. There was one decades ago, but unfortunately they picked a crap location, so didn't last.