This idea would tap into people's complex relationship to food, health, diets, guilt, etc... Have a restaurant that serves all manner of foods, from low-cal to indulgent, and the cost is always the same: one cent a calorie.

If you order steamed veggies and a turkey wrap, you get a nice healthy lunch for a good price, under 5 bucks.

If you want to indulge in a slice of cheesecake, pay 16.00 for it, and maybe the cost will help assuage your guilt.

I bet people would eat there, and order enough of the "bad" stuff to make the place money.
-- mimz, May 03 2007

I think there should be supermarkets like this. You purchase "calories" for cash when you enter, and then you can "spend" them throughout the store based on package labels.
-- phundug, May 03 2007


Well, the trouble with a store is that, really, it's not cost-effective for makers/sellers of low-cal items to make pennies on the dollar for their normal prices. I figured in a restaurant setting, especially with the right theme-y PR spin, it would all work out and the business as a whole would survive based on the novelty factor of paying 20 bucks for dessert.
-- mimz, May 03 2007


I seem to recall a similar post to this, but can't find it. btw, there is a *restaurant* category.
Welcome to the halfbakery.
-- xandram, May 03 2007


It will probably come as no surprise, but when you analyze the nutritional content of the food in a supermarket, the cheapest foods have the highest calorie content and lowest nutritional value. That's why our poor are getting so fat and unhealthy.

So, if you could find a way to make the "healthy" foods at the supermarket the cheapest ones, you would be doing the whole nation a favor.
-- DrCurry, May 03 2007


// So, if you could find a way to make the "healthy" foods at the supermarket the cheapest ones, you would be doing the whole nation a favor.//

I like that spin, but turthully I feel guilty enough eating deserts why do I need to break my bank account as well? It will only add to my severe and unadulterated depression.

[+] Against my better (selfish) judgement.
-- ColonelMuffins, May 03 2007


"How much is the lard sandwich?"
"Seventeen ninety nine"
"and the caviar?"
"Six eighty a pound"
"OK, give me two pounds of the caviar and a sack of truffles, please. Keep the change."
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 03 2007


This wouldn't be good for me...
-- BJS, May 03 2007



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