At cheap restaurants in the UK, they tend to pile on the chips because they’re cheap, make the plates look full and help customers believe they’re getting a great value feed.
Trouble is, I’m not in a cheap restaurant … I’m at the Westin Hotel in Sydney … and this burger is is close to being one of the most expensive I’ve ever had.
$35!
THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS!!!
For a bloody beef burger … or should I say, for a massive amount of chips with a small side of burger.
Sure, a burger is hardly the ‘healthy option’, but with chip portions like these [or should I say ‘French Fries’], it is any wonder Australia now has the worst obesity rates after America!
Mind you, for all my ranting, the plate still ended up looking like this …
… so is it any wonder I now have the fastest growing stomach after a pregnant woman with triplets?
And given I’m traveling for basically the next 5 weeks … if I’m not careful, I’m going to be huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
All this begs the question, why don’t hotels offer a ‘healthy square meals a day’ program?
For a ‘fixed fee’, the hotel could automatically bring you a healthy meal at breakfast, lunch and dinner times – ensuring people like me don’t have the chance to go mental with their in-room menu of fat-ridden goodies.
And to make it even better … this option could be arranged at the time of the booking, so that people can’t change their mind and order more overpriced burger and fries, even if they had good intentions at the beginning.
The thing is, for people who travel alot, eating tons of hotel food is probably be as bad for you as munching down daily Macca’s – so if the big hotel chains don’t want to have films like SUPER SIZE ME made about them, maybe this isn’t such a daft idea at all.