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supersize meals

Category: Fast Food
Responses: 7 (2 in support, 1 neutral, 4 in opposition)
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Reversing the supersize meals. Restaurants like McDonald's can offer a cash back incentive for mini sizing meals. You can order a regular meal, and then they ask you if, for 25 or 50 cents back, you would like to order the smaller meal.

Given the bad publicity they have been getting, especially in Europe, this may be an option.

molly, Nov 17 2004

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You'll end up costing the resteraunts money, which means they'll either have have to charge more overall, or they'll go out of business.

Personally, I'm not a fan of either of those results.

MikeMol, Nov 17 2004

They already do that - don't buy the supersize, and you don't pay more. McDonald's has Medium, etc.

jtbradley, Nov 21 2005

For the business owner: Restaurants make more money by selling more food. The best business strategy is to come up with ways to sell more food, not less.

For the consumer: Just order a cheeseburger with small fries and a water. Eat half of the cheeseburger now and save the other half for your next meal.

DavidPesta, Jan 19 2006

Yeah, they don't care about health, like everyone else said, they're a business, they only care about money

zygomatic, May 10 2007