Hey everyone! My name is Lou and I am a student at University of California Santa Barbara. In my little college town called Isla Vista their is a restaurant called Silvergreens and they are the first restaurant to implement this new receipt. I recently vistited it and saw the receipt first hand. I thought it was an awesome idea! The receipt tells you all of the nutritional info. and is customizable to your order. There is also a spot on the receipt that tells you how to order your food healthy next time, like mine told me that "if you hold the mayo on a turkey sandwitch, you will save 110 calories and 4 grams on saturated fat." I thought this was great because the tip related to what I ordered. Also I was talking to the manager a little bit about it because I was interested and he brought up some good points. He told me that not only does this benefit the consumer by nutritionally educating them it also will benefit companys. He gave the example of McDonalds and how they have been pressured in the last couple of years to display their nutritional information to their customers. But the ways they have been doing it have not been working, because for one just by putting the calories and fat of a big mac on a board does not help the customer make a healthy choice, and if they customize their order and say they don't want special sauce the fat and calories are going to change. This could lead to lawsuits from some people because what it says on the nutritional info. is not what they are really eating. Also if Mcdonalds changes a menu item then they must throw away all of the original nutritional information and reprint all new info, which makes it costly. It seems the biggest complaint so far from all of you that have responded is that you get it after you eat. I don't think this is a big deal because if you see what you are eating is unhealthy the receipt informs you how to make it healthy next time. I was also thinking this would be great for my mom who is on the weight watchers diet, because when she eats out she has to guess how many calories she is eating, this way she could have a way to track that and convert it to her point system helping her stick to her diet. So anyways... I know this is kind of long but I feel really strongly that this is a great idea and that it should be implemented in other places. i give it a
