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A restaurant menu designed to help you make healthy choices

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From the school of design comes an idea to help people make healthy choices at “picking an item of the menu” time!

Do you really believe that the design of a menu can help you make wiser choices or do you think it is just a gimmick?

Healthier choices are normally more expensive than the normal ones so maybe it is just a ploy by the restaurant industry for us to guilt us and pay more at the same time.

The actual design that is developed by Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor of food marketing, was published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management and is included here:

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What are your thoughts?

Image source: The Atlantic.

 

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